Blogaga

This is my blog-roll. It used to be a little widget on my home page, but thanks to my growing interest in reading more blogs it’s expanded to take a page of its own.

First things first, I would like to emphasise that I also write at wigs and muscles (yeah, we try to be funny/deadly/what-not/we-don’t-really-care, but publicity is our prime motto). Moving on to serious matters, here’s penning down in my own way about all the people I seem to follow in the blogsphere.

One of the first blogs I read was Krish Ashok’s Doing Jalsa and Showing Jilpa. He was quite an inspiration for me to start blogging myself. And then I managed to bump into a few more big-heads (perunthalaigal as it’s termed in Tam) in the blogsphere. Mahendra pens down at an unquiet mind, the Great Bong expresses random thoughts of a demented mind, a software guy behind Alfred E. Neuman’s picture elucidates Twisted DNA, biker dude updates us on Bengalooru Banter, Prashant Mehta talks about his not-so mundane journey, Jai Iyer writes matter, and Baby Vijayanti and puppy Manohar star here. Blowing flower power, there’s Harini’s point of view, a Bengalooru girl who’d make us say Entha Hotness, Anjali Phillip’s silverine, Radz’ tunneling thru’, Usha’s ageless bonding, Lekhni’s imagined universe, a tamizh penn telling us on what it is being Tamizh and a Penn, and a maami writes in her blog titled Maami’s web-blog. Then there’s the randomly updated indian humour site Son of Bosey, and several Desi Pundits.

Apart from that, there are friends who are doing a great job online. Ashwin writes his untitled stories, Nikhil and Vyaas write about the world as they see it, Ramdas explains five, six, slapping sticks, and Chari’s writing at two pin. Ramya rhymes in a prism of thoughts, and writes La-Di-Da. Mathur writes stuff that’s politically incorrect (and now he’s even letting loose his dark side), Jyotishko’s random ramblings and hate speeches satirises worldly affairs between heaven and hell, Mani muses, Shreya is finding herself, Bharathi writes at Kaleidoscope of life lyf, Eshani did it her way, Saikiran let his heart speak, Varun pens down at string and timekeeping, Shubodeep is at Spectra, Sambit fires a satiromania, Vichar describes his salad days and Vijayashankar incandescences.

My nephew Rajiv writes stuff that’s Absolutely Arbit, and another nephew of mine, Vivek (yeah, they’re my nephews but are way older than I am) updates his thoughts on My Side sparsely, and my cousin TK’s Perfect Vision seems to have blurred down over the years.

Words aside, Shreyas displays her 1000-word representations (a.k.a. pictures/sketches) with her tongue-out expression at phbbt. And then there’s good ‘ol Sures Kumar, also at NID (oh yeah, Shreyas is at NID) who writes in Sures Kumar’s blog (might sound mundane, but he’s the only person on this page who has named his blog after him). A couple of other beautiful picture blogs on Chennai are Daily Photo Chennai and Chennai Daily Photo (much like anagrams, aren’t they?).

Finally, my heartfelt condolences to dead-blogs that are still wasting web-space. Harish started writing at Jigsaw, and then just disappeared without a trace after five posts. And here I’m to present more-depressing cases, of those who died twice: Kshitij tried to add blue, Natesh tried writing the world as he saw it (he’s now talking about starbucks, costco & tissue papers) and Shashank tried documenting the memoirs of a mad scientist (but at least now he’s dedicating his mind & body, heart & soul to wigsandmuscles), but they all seem to have given up. May their blogs rest in peace.

So much for going gaga over blogs (get the pun in the title of this page?)! There’re also a few comics I follow:

• PhD comics makes me realise the bitter truths of grad-school life and the hardships of research in probably the most humourous way.
• Fredo and Pidjin make you go nuts laughing in theirendeavours trying to end the World.
• Geek and poke explain quite a few geeky concepts with fun comics.
• Cyanide and Happiness come up with random things in arguably the most humourous way!
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal quite satiates your appetite for humour.
• Savage chickens has brilliant cartoons on yellow sticky notes.

My techie updates come from Digital Inspiration, and random musings are from Blame it on the voices.

That’s pretty much about it. Do feel free to add stuff in the comments section and let me know as to how I could possibly improve it.