For instance, take this comment by Shivam Vij:
I don't think I am answerable to you, and neither are The Other India bloggers - ten of us by now. And I didn't get all of them together; Dilip invited me.
Now, let us take a close look at this interesting graphic (source register.com):
Those commenters on the dcubed blog who are demanding the ouster of Shivam Vij from the Other Idiots site (see here, here and here) do not know what they are up against. Come on people, you are falling for it hook, line and sinker. The is no Other India! This is a very elaborate scam in preparation for a certain event in 2009.
Shivam's claim as to Dilip invited him to blog on The Other Idiots site is like Manmohan Singh saying, "I didn't want to be in the Congress, much less be the PM, Soniaji invited me", which is more credible by the way.
The ten bloggers at the Other India are just about down to four or five now. The rest scrammed as soon as they discovered the scam. Among the current members are some who wear the party- card like a badge. The rest are there for some form of freebies or prizes at essay competitions, government scholarships etc. As a matter of fact, the presence of one of them who is in the payroll of the Indian Government is highly questionable from an ethical standpoint, given the agenda of the site. But then again, upper class (*) people often tend to confuse between privilege earned versus privilege assumed.
Heck, what were they thinking, they will put up a website and suddenly the net savvy youth will go all mushy and stampede the poll booths to vote for a certain party? As far as I can see, it is not going very well.
[Update] Dilip D'Souza made a follow-up post, in response to the barrage of requests from his regular readers to take Shivam Vij out of The Other Idiots. The post is so mushy that we felt nauseated. In this post he also asks why so many of us do not use our real names. Well, Mr. D'Souza, blogging ain't our day job, that's why. So, we have no upside - no government scholarships, economic benefit, book contracts or jury-rigged blog mela awards waiting for us yet there is all the downside such as identity theft, spamming and for some even a possible loss of a lucrative job. By the way, he has also enabled comment moderation which is another way of saying, opposing views not welcome here.
(*) There will be a follow up post on the Mythical Indian Middle class.
4 comments:
You are reading too much into it. You know what they say about broken clocks...don't you?
Well, there are other things we read too much into, for instance Bofors scandal, fodder scam, Lalu's kids carte blanche admission into medical schools, Ramadoss violating AIIMS, phat dalits taking away all dalit entitlement privileges etc. etc.
Barbar,
Do you know as to many of those 'Other Indian' bloggers are OBC/SC/ST?
I wonder is this Shivam whom Dilip 'invited' is a SC or OBC? Or is Dilip only 'inviting' only elite creamy types? Mystery, mystery..
Let's see if this makes it on Dilip's blog:
No, they remain "onlooker" or "barbarian" or "left-anarchist" or "a regular commenter" or "confused" or "reubena" or "the other half" or, naturally, just "anonymous".
Huck Finn reading wouldn't be any better or worse if Mark Twain wasn't Mark Twain. Don't run away from argument because it came from someone you don't know personally. A lot of those you've listed have personal blogs online without their mug shots and your credibility isn't any better than theirs.
Why is this important? Because a Google search on Shivam's name will eventually throw up all this abuse and insinuation
It hasn't stopped you any less or more in over a decade now has it? So if you are a barometer, Shivam will do extremely well, no need to hold on to his brief, unless he's specifically requested you to.
But more than that, he is willing to learn about those things too, which is a much rarer quality than simply caring
Ah ha moment huh? Is he a Dalit? Is he a OBC? Is a SC? Is he a ST? I don't know but shouldn't you all have some reservations at otherindia about kind of person you "invite" at otherindia? Does otherindia have a quota for lifiting SC/ST based passionate thinkers or willing learners.
-yeah, another anonymous.
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