Indi blogs


Recently I’ve started tracking some blogs focused on India. I figured I’d share the list here if people are interested:

* [[http://desipundit.com/|desipundit.com]]: this is more of a //meta-blog// — it collects stories from a lot of different Indi blogs.
* [[http://desicritics.org/index.php|desicritics.org]]: what the title says — Media, Culture, Politics, Sports and More with a South Indian focus.
* [[http://slashindia.org/|slashindia.org]]: “The real sotries of India”. Inspired by Slashdot, of course.
* [[http://theotherindia.org/|How the other half lives]]: //This blog will attempt to explore that uncertain terrain. It will focus on the “other half” that is often ignored by a market-driven mainstream media. It will attempt to present a fuller picture of India and a fuller examination of issues of concern than what we normally see around us.//
* [[http://www.contentsutra.com/blog|contentsutra.com]]: Focused on digital media related news from India
* [[http://indianeconomy.org/|indianeconomy.org]]: what it says
* [[http://deeshaa.org|Atanu Dey on India's Development]]
* [[http://indicast.blogsome.com/|indicast]]: an experiment in //desi// podcast.

In general, I think the quality at indianeconomy, Atanu, How the better…, and desicritics is good. Desipundit is good for keeping an eye on what //could// be good. Contentsutra is also good, specially because of its sharp focus. Slashindia needs to get its act together. Indicast is fairly new, but its a good beginning. I think with a few more podcasts behind them, they’ll become a lot better (in terms of focus, depth, experience and sense of humor). A quick search on [[http://odeo.com|Odeo]] reveiled two more India related podcasts out there — [[http://www.odeo.com/channel/30799/view|Podmasti]] and [[http://www.odeo.com/channel/33333/view|India in classrooms]] — I haven’t tried them out yet. I’ll check back and report when I have, but both look interesting.

6 comments

  1. diwaker

    @gulli: I’ll check it out, thanks! The RSS feed doesn’t seem to be working right now though. BTW, how do you know its one guy (“he covers…”)? I couldn’t find much on the “About Us” page.

  2. diwaker

    @ushi: Hi! Thanks, I’m glad you enjoy the blog. BTW, you have a very pretty name. What does it mean? Checked out Archana’s blog and yours as well — both look very interesting, promptly added to my ever growing blog roll :-)

  3. Aditya

    Hey Diwaker,

    I am one of the hosts at Indicast and just wanted to say cheers for listing us in your post. You mention that we could get a lot better and so wanted to say that we might be changing the format a bit by inreasing the episode lenght. So that we can either talk in depth or cover more stories.

    Also another quandry is do we cover the latest in news or do we cover things that news doesnt cover? So we are trying to do something. If you want you could subscribe for email updates and we will let you know as things change.

    Cheers,

    Aditya

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