We, the bloggers

Why do I blog? Simple. Because I am bored. Because they don’t publish me anymore. Because some of what I think and write is too subversive to be published anyways. Because the stray thought is sometimes a line, often a para and is best posted in a blog. But why do others blog? Why do some of them put out their innermost thoughts in public domain? Why do female bloggers write about their sexual yearning? How they would want a man to do shake up their insides or the therapeutic powers of giving head. The reasons are best known to them. But a blog can be an online diary with a secret craving that interesting people read and discover you….sexually. The Barkha Dutt-powered We the people had a session on blogging. Sadly it focussed mostly on female bloggers washing their panties in public. There was also a gay copywriter who writes a gay blog for gay men. More power to him. But their yak was somewhat yawn-inducing. The one that made sense in the show was a certain Ravish Kumar from NDTV India. He blogs in Hindi, writes about pre-liberalisation India, when a new fridge would indeed be the neighbour’s envy, about how life and lifestyle changed over the years. Ravish says blogs can bring writing back. With so much to pack in such little time, blogging can keep the writer in you alive. From Faiz to feng shui, blog on wherever the mind wanders. Ravish made sense. Blogging indeed keeps the writer alive. Sometimes it’s difficult to get published. Blogging is the next best thing. “The writer has a new competitor, the blogger,” Ravish said. I agree.