As blogging takes the Indian cyber world by storm, thanks to innovative and poignant blogging sites like BlogSpot, Instablogs and others, it is still way behind its Western counterpart. But now only, one thought keeps lurking behind my mind. Has this led to a virtual onslaught of pointless and stupid articles, without any coherence of thought, substance or meaning flooding the blogs? I am a regular blogger myself, and I wholeheartedly agree that blogs are meant to be the reflections of ones innermost musings, his or her deliberations, and reveries whatever... not necessarily be some prosaic manifestation of day to day happenings. But at the same time it should not be reduced to a “cut and paste” phenomenon! Agreed, blogs give us a sense of freedom, a unique ‘joie de vivre’ feeling where we give a vent to our pent up feelings, emotions etc…but that does not mean anybody who has an access to the net can write endless soliloquies about his daily life and expect others to give kudos to him for his writing prowess!

Most of the blogs are full of grammatical errors, with some being a word to word copy of an article that the ‘erudite’ writer has read somewhere! Some Indian blogs have been reduced to matchmaking and dating sites, with bloggers giving lewd and dubious suggestions in the form of comments.

Mercifully, things are not absolutely grim, and there are few sites which have kept a vigil against gratuitous and mindless write-ups. The internet is a storehouse of information, and the mindboggling array of articles keep us dazed and stupefied. However, there should at least be a semblance of order in this madness, and blogs should be the manifesto of some relevant articles, not just dissociated ramblings of unknown people! What do you say?