BLOGGING IN INDIA

) blogging is mostly by techies and they aren’t a significant percent of Indian population, and hasnt broken the technological barrier.
2) Its restricted to the urban Indian yuppie/upwardly mobile 18-40 year old.
3) blogging requires a PC – now its at an abysmal .50% (optimistic)
4) blogging in India is mostly in English.
5) bloggers cant have an impact in India, beyond their techie/cos who are targeting the upwardly mobile 18-40 year olds
6) to a majority of the English speaking Indians itself bloggers don’t matter
7) Politicians don’t care about blogging, because for them those who blog, don’t care, to vote, and a politician is concerned only about his vote bank. Blog readers and bloggers, are too lazy to move its arse and be proactive. They are more concerned their movies and breakfast menu. They will though post emotional rants, outpouring of emotions on cases like the one eyed baby, and that’s the end of it. They’ve done their bit, now they won’t feel guilty and can sleep peacefully at night.
8) Blogstreet India which claims to track Indian Blogsphere, follows 4600 blogs, and Im sure a significant proportion of those blogs are NRI blogs.
9) The day blogging in regional blogging takes off, and internet penetration is higher, blogging will have an impact on public opinion in India.
10) The day Sun News devotes headlines to events like Blogcamp, is yardstick/proof that blogging in India can make a difference in the real world

The maximum reach of blogging is 300 seconds of airtime on any news channel, tucked away in the most boring section of the bulletin which no one watches. Bloggers by Blogging cannot make an iota of difference in India.

Then what’s the entire publicity surrounding blogcamp you ask? That’s just the bloggers living under the illusion that they matter in India. They are under the illusion because its run by techies who are more glued into the US market rather than the Indian market, they believe it matters because in USA its creating waves. In short a bunch of techies and some NRIs running their own event, just like another one of those useless katchi maanadus, held on Sundays at Marina Beach, except here there is no katchi, and no thalaivan, but it still is jingoism, doesn’t matter to the larger Indian public.