Kingsley<\/a> takes a walk down Brigade Road, Bangalore and notices an interesting fact.
Sameer<\/a> has a good roundup of the forces arrayed against the American coalition.
Swami<\/a> (permalinks not working, March 24 post) claims that an article by Swaminathan Aiyar on the Iraq war isn’t making any sensible point.
Mahesh<\/a> (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<\/a> links to another article by Swaminathan Aiyar, in his opinion the best one written on the war yet.
Shanti<\/a> links to an article by Tavleen Singh and calls for India to take firmer action against Pakistan.
Jayakrishnan Nair<\/a> takes up the question of when the Mahabharata war actually took place.
Aju<\/a> on what kinds of blogs he likes.
Jyotsna Kamat<\/a> (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<\/a> 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
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) (Gratuitous plug<\/b>: 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<\/a> talks of the sociology of software, specifically how discussion boards, blogging, etc. help in the formation of social networks.
The Inscrutable American<\/a> 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<\/i> 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?) <\/p>\n
Phew! That’s it for this week. Expect this to be mirrored on Realwomenonline<\/a> by today. 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. < ?r \/>(flourish of trumpets…)So ladies and gentlemen, here is this week’s Blog Mela. Shankar Narayan talks about how blogging will change the world of journalismKingsley takes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
And who’s next?
Update: <\/b> Here is the “>mirror
Update ?2<\/b> Super Sam’s next. Head over to his place<\/a> to find how you can nominate your posts for this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"