Grey Matter

I don’t read celebrity blogs. But due to the recent Umar Abdullah’s much publicized speech in parliament and the new found affection for him in the blogosphere I looked at his blog.

I was really amazed by the clarity of thought and words in his blog that i read through the entire archives at one sitting.

This is my favorite lines from Umar’s blog:

“I am sitting and writing this blog from one of India’s most sought after clubs. Membership is not exactly limited but is not easy. The selection process is often cumbersome, very often expensive though there is no fixed membership fee – some pay in crores to gain entry and yet some get in by getting others to sponsor the fees. Membership is for life,once in never out and though membership is not automatically transferable to a member of one’s family this too has been known to happen with great regularity. The food is not much to write home about but service is quick and the food is so cheap that concepts like inflation exist in theory only and do not practically bother those using the facilities.

Where am I sitting I hear you ask. It’s simple really – I’m in the Central Hall of India’s Parliament.”

UPDATE: The blog seems to be closed now.

Well i know a lot of writers who also have a blog. This is about bloggers who become writers because they are bloggers.

I see a lot of bloggers like Amit Varma,Kiruba Shankar are these days writing in newspapers. Newspapers with all these competition around are trying to make a difference with having bloggers write columns for them.

But then most bloggers are ego centric.You see a lot of ‘I’ in their posts/columns. Kiruba’s column in some paper had a piece like this

I bought a super small laptop. /so what?/

It looks more like my daughters toy /Ahem.Ahem/

So on.In the end i was asking.So whats your point?

themaanga always has sarcastic remark about the columns these people write.

When i found krishashok’s column last week on paper.I was surprised. The content was more like his blog posts.While it is perfectly a good blog post.Some how it doesn’t fit into newspaper.Even if it is in a magazine section which not many reads.