Retrieved via the Wayback Machine. Originally posted by Peter Griffin
This blog starts out with its demise foretold. It will run for only for the nine days of the Times of India Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (that’s the 4th to the 12th February).
During that time, we plan to bring you a bhelpuri of blogposts. Previews and impressions, reviews and reports, text and photographs. If we can wangle it, maybe some podcasts and video too.
During that time, we hope to prove that there is power in collaboration, that citizen journalism is coming of age, that this experiment in giving creators and their audiences fresh, new alternatives is a damn good idea, and the foundation for other experiments of this kind, maybe even *gasp* a model for more of the same.
Bu hey, forget about all that. During that time, we basically plan to have a lot of fun.
We hope you do too.
Comments
Comment by Leela on February 4, 2006 @ 11:04 am
Looks great. Sounds great. Will be around. All the best.
Comment by satish on February 4, 2006 @ 1:37 pm
Can we have pics n video of the festival pls. should be cool..
cheers n all the best
regards
satish
Comment by nikita on February 4, 2006 @ 2:44 pm
this is brilliance!
we support citizen journalism all the way
and we shall live here , unto death
the best of all,team!
Comment by Shivam Vij on February 5, 2006 @ 9:42 pm
So heartening to see Zigzackly use WordPress, for one!
Comment by zigzackly on February 6, 2006 @ 2:42 am
Leela,
Thanks. See ya around.
Satish,
Plenty of pics. Video, we’re trying. Maybe audio.
Nikita,
‘Allo, brat. Glad you approve.
Shivam,
Credit where it’s due: it’s all Megha’s doing. I would have happily bumbled on with Blogger.
Comment by Jane Bhandari on February 7, 2006 @ 1:34 pm
Nice to be called effervescent!
The Poetry for Youth reading was actually the second step taken to present the possibility of having modern Indian poets (rather than English victorians) on the school syllabus - the first having been a seminar on Jan 23rd at Max Mueller Bhavan where we discussed how best to introduce poetry to young people in a way that would make them want to read more. Eventually we hope to have an anthology of poems by Indian writers, in fact, several anthologies, aimed at three or four age groups. The more I think about it the more passionate I get.
This has been such fun, I am looking forward to day 3, and eventually, to reading and judging the sms poems.
Flash Fiction, what a marvellous idea. writing a story in such a limited number of words is quite difficult unless you have had lots of practice in precis writing.
