Thursday, February 4, 2010

Indian Bloggers and Current Trends

On the wake of raging Telangana movement, I found my self suddenly involved in surfing blogs immensely in the recent times. Needless to say, I most of the times came across many Indian Bloggers. Here I summarize the various hot topics that are discussed by Indian Blogger community in their posts currently. I am amazed by one thing, the commonality in these posts.
I cannot say my approach has been holistic and it is certainly a narrow one. And of course it is only my point of view. I begin with the most common topic touched by most of them.
1. 3 idiots: One thing, this is no doubt a sensational hit. At least that is what I noticed from the blogs. None of the posts seem to be criticizing the movie to the extremes. Most of them actually find this movie very interesting and entertaining. Probably this is some thing to do with the lethargic attitude current generation has developed towards present educational system in India(the convent kind of). Yes, the movie vehemently criticizes our educational system and no doubt present generations are wary of the system. I do not know what is actually inciting people to bring out discussion on this movie. I suppose , either people are not satisfied with their knowledge and jobs or they are simply nostalgic.
2.Telangana: Here my approach is certainly confounded by my own interests. Whatever, I can only say that there is a big battle of blogs going on here on this issue. People are politically very motivated. They are simply taking sides and presenting long roll of arguments. Pretty interesting though! LOL!
3. MNS: The Maharashtra Navnirman Sangh/Sena, is the hottest of the political issues being discussed on various blogs. Contrary to the previous issue, people are not taking sides. Rather, they are taking a side. I mean, every one is simply against Raj Thackerey. I don't know if Raj is happy with it or if he is condemning the bloggers. But I think it is time for him to think about his way of practicing his principles.
But annoying side of this is that many if not all are illogically clubbing the telangana issue and Marathi Manoos as same. Well I think the bloggers are just confined to the news media to get their information. The very media they some how despise.
Ironic but not strange. It is a common logical fallacy.