Sorry for the delay people, but today was an unexpected holiday, and even more unexpectedly, I had work that did not involve sitting in front of a computer.
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So ladies and gentlemen, here is this week’s Blog Mela.

Shankar Narayan talks about how blogging will change the world of journalism
Kingsley takes a walk down Brigade Road, Bangalore and notices an interesting fact.
Sameer has a good roundup of the forces arrayed against the American coalition.
Swami (permalinks not working, March 24 post) claims that an article by Swaminathan Aiyar on the Iraq war isn’t making any sensible point.
Mahesh (permalinks not working, March 29 post) links to an article on how Mugabe is using sneaky tactics to steal a by-election, wants the international community to step in to rescue Zimbabwe.
Yazad links to another article by Swaminathan Aiyar, in his opinion the best one written on the war yet.
Shanti links to an article by Tavleen Singh and calls for India to take firmer action against Pakistan.
Jayakrishnan Nair takes up the question of when the Mahabharata war actually took place.
Aju on what kinds of blogs he likes.
Jyotsna Kamat (March 8 post but permalink doesn’t work) has a very informative article on B L Rice, who was the first Englishman to document Karnataka’s history.
V S Babu in a scathing post, describes the attempts by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to get Malayalis to do even less productive work than they are doing now. (Sorry couldn’t resist )
(Gratuitous plug: Dakshina Kannada – the saner alternative to Kerala. The climate is as good, the people are smarter and the politicians aren’t completely insane)
Dina Mehta talks of the sociology of software, specifically how discussion boards, blogging, etc. help in the formation of social networks.
The Inscrutable American has detected the beginnings of a communist revolution in a blog.
(I once had this bright idea of sending all our communists to the US by asking them to practice true Marxism. After all, Marx had predicted that communism would come to the most advanced capitalist country first, and India, still being a feudal country, would have to go through capitalism first, right?)

Phew! That’s it for this week. Expect this to be mirrored on Realwomenonline by today.
And who’s next?
Update: Here is the his place to find how you can nominate your posts for this week.