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.
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Well I think the bloggers are just confined to the news media to get their information. The very media they some how despise.
ReplyDeleteYou wrote in my blog "At the end the voter is left with a choice-less choice."..This sums it all very very well..
P. Sainath of 'The Hindu' has written abt how media has become "stenographers to the powerful." Or as RGV's Rann says it "Hum humhare filmo ko news kehte hai"..
But blogs also suffer from non-balanced opinions. Some collective blogs with Guidelines might be the answer.
On personal note, from your comments in Sujai's blog, I must say that you're too much patient. I've not seen anyone taking so much pains to make others understand simple things to people who argue for the heck of it. And what I like is that you have been remarkably objective throughout. (no ill-feelings against anyone)..Great job dude..
Madhav,
ReplyDeleteUnlike voters, bloggers have wealth of information sources other than news media. That includes books,library sources, articles, journals and opinions and information from other bloggers.
I actually went through several blogposts by journalists, new amateurs and senior bloggers.
As I said most of them including the journalists and senior bloggers have cited and related their information to contemporary and current news articles. There did so however with personally formed ideas and opinions of their friends. I dared to question them the validity of news articles. Some did acknowledge their ignorance of sources other than news media.