Bloggers in India are meeting to day,11 November 2012, at Bangalore at 530 pm-1030 PM.
The event is conducted jointly by IndiBlogger and Nokia.
Attendees are 284 at the latest count.
Indiblogger.
It’s going to be an epic evening of blogging and apptasting at Bangalore! Register quick and mark your calenders, because you’re not going to want to miss this one!
The Hosts
Vikas Khanna
New York based, Michelin Starred, Celebrity Chef!
Rajiv Makhni
Popular TV anchor, one of India’s leading technology analysts, gadget guru!
Note: This event is for approved IndiBloggers only.
But I am surprised at the interaction of the Attendees, the warmth with which they communicate with each other and the seemingly painstaking arrangements made by the organizers change my mind.
May this continue.
I am quite new to this Community.
Some observations.
Most prominent of the Community seems to be youngsters and they seem to have a thing or two to express which is quite interesting.
I have visited many of the sites and find them to be original,Tech savvy and quietly different, without being brash.
I interacted with a few of them on telephone, the warmth is spontaneous and refreshing.
Let me hear these people and report.
May be some of my readers are also in this Community.
Would you please contact me by mail/at this site/venue?
Pakistanis are described as Terrorists mainly, the Blogger rues and states that the Pakistanis are being stereotyped.
This view is not without merits.
Why are the Pakistanis stereotyped this way?
Pakistanis resist being stereotyped.
The West, especially the US would love to stereotype any one, especially in a negative light to suit its purposes.
The behaviour of the Leaders of the country whose face is visible to the Globe.
The action and reaction of the Pakistanis in the web.
The non presence of Pakistani readers and bloggers on Hot debates on a range of topics with a stand that is not essentially Islamic.
The structure of Institutions in Pakistan.
The spectacle of corrupt leaders in Pakistan with deals and counter deals to offset corruption charges.
The meek following of US Diktats.
The inability to address the issue of terrorism excepting quoting figures.
As to US stereotyping, it is to be expected.It has done/is doing for India as well.
This can be countered only by web presence in retorting with facts.
The globally visible face of Pakistan, Musharraf,Zardari,Gilani,Pasha,Mullahs,Pakistani Cricket team ( which never completes a series with out a scandal,Pakistan Taliban…. is not rosy.
Why can not they behave normally?
You find people like Nawaz Sharief being indicted for Corruption,getting asylum in Saudi and then comes back to Pakistan when he finds he can do a deal for power.
Musharraf runs away to UK and a warrant against his arrest is pending in Pakistan!
Starting from Ayub Khan..running through Zulfikat Ali Bhutto,Yahya Khan,now Bilawal..are these people the face of Pakistan?
Zardari has corruption cases in the Court and there is run in with the court on a daily basis.
Pasha of ISI gets indicted for hiding the information on Ossma in Pakistan from the Government , he(Pasha) lambasted the US and immediately rushes to US to meet Panetta.
On the one hand leaders declare that they will not tolerate Drone attacks in Pakistan by the US but hobnob with the US the same day and keep on asking for more US Money!
Best talents, highly motivated, yet morally bankrupt-openly clashing with each other, fixing matches and getting caught in Foreign soil.
On the Pakistani Taliban the impression one gets is that Pakistan is ambivalent is on this issue.
These facts are to be addressed to and the good things happening in Pakistan; like the people taking on Extremism and corruption.
Readers /surfers ,Media need to come out of islamic orientation once in a while at least to contribute.
Bloggers, Media should also do their bit instead of harping the same subject India/US hatred,Kashmir.
The effort of the blogger is laudable.
She can send me a list of objective sites in Pakistan(like Pakistan Tea House WordPress) to me and I will carry their message on image make over as I am doing right now.
Pakistanis Protest Sectarian Violence.
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Today, tens of hundreds of people showed up from 8 year olds to 60+ senior citizens in different cities of Pakistan to clean up the mess created by the few individuals who somehow always end up defining Pakistan. Here’s to all of today’s participants, you’re the reason why we have a good future. Pakistan is proud of you.
What saddens me the most is that, like they said, mainstream media willnever cover this amazing act of unity and peace by Pakistanis after the riots. Thousands and thousands of Pakistani citizens came out after the violent riots and cleaned up streets, public venues and other places to prove that the disruptive ones don’t speak for the goodhearted majority.
“When it comes to international media and reporting, a stereotype has been established of Pakistanis as people full of hate,” said the 23-year-old student of FC College, where she studies media and political science. “People would post on my blog asking whether Pakistanis were really how they were shown in the media.”
So on August 8, Kasana set out to make a statement against this stereotyping. She advertised heavily on social media, inviting people to contribute to her project by taking a picture of themselves holding a piece of paper with the Pakistan flag on it and a message declaring: “I am a Pakistani and I refuse to be stereotyped.”
“The idea was to encourage Pakistanis to speak out and tell the world that we are a lot more than what people see on the television,” Kasana said.
Within an hour her appeal for entries, Kasana’s project ‘Pakistanis against Stereotyping‘ received close to a hundred photographs. And much to her amazement, she received contributions not just from Pakistanis across the world, but people of other nationalities too.
But some addictions are better than most and Blogging Twittering belong to this category.
“The co-founder of Twitter has urged its 500million users to get off the micro-blogging website and do something else instead.
Christopher Stone said he did not want anybody to spend hours using the site because it is ‘unhealthy’.
Instead he said they should dip in and find what they want – then stop and do other things.
Twitter Addictive.
Mr Stone was one of the four men who created Twitter in 2006 and has remained creative director, helping it become one of the most influential social networks in the world.”
Following is the Tweet that is a raging controversy and the tweeter and those who agreed with him are likely to be prosecuted.
I see no reason to be upset.
Seems to be a straight forward normal question you ask of your Maker.
Compare this with the approach of the Hindu devotees who even go to the extent of kicking God(Bhrigu to Vishnu)!
I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lot I don’t understand about you,”
“I will not pray for you.” Hamza tweeted.
This is the controversial tweet posted by Hamza Kashgari, a 23-year-old Saudi blogger, which sparked outrage in last week with comments posted on the Prophet’s birthday a week ago.
Kuala Lumpur: A 23-year-old Saudi journalist, who had allegedly made blasphemous remarks on Twitter was deported from Malaysia on Sunday, despite pleas from rights groups that he may be executed in his home country.
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