The Kala Ghoda Gazette is an experiment in new media, a collaboration between the Literature and Writing section of the Festival, Caferati, the writers’ forum, and an informal collective of Bombay bloggers.

It harnesses the power of instant publishing via a blog to bring you an intimate portrait of Bombay’s favourite cultural festival, the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, which runs this year from the 2nd to the 10th February.

The blogging team is a mixed bunch: some are young journos, columnists or freelance writers in other avataars, most of them are bloggers of various degrees or reknown, all share a keen interest in the city and its cultural happenings.

The Gazette is in its third year now (unfortunately, our database spontaneously combusted somewhere in 2006, so some of the first years’ archives are just a wistful memory) and as we did in ‘06 and ‘07, we aim to bring you a mix of previews and impressions, reviews and reports, text and photographs, maybe even some audio and video.

Credits and Acknowledgements

The Kala Ghoda Association, and R Sriram, curator of the Literature and Writing section of the festival, for letting us do the Gazette again.

Megha Murthy, who did all the hard work behind the scenes that made the blog possible.

The blog software being used is the most excellent Wordpress. Long live open source!

And of course, all the bloggers.

Contacting the bloggers

The team is listed on the right, under “Authors.” Click on the number in brackets next to the name to see all posts by that author. Clicking on a name leads you to that person’s blog (and yes, not all have chosen to link to a personal blog). If they want to be contacted, they will have that information prominently displayed on their own sites.

Of course you’re also welcome to leave comments, mash notes and other feedback on their posts on this blog. Or mail editors at caferati dot com, and we’ll make sure your message gets to them.

Oh yes. If you’d like add a report, mail it in—same address—and if we like it, we’ll publish it, with credit to you (remember to tell us precisely how you want to be credited).

Peter Griffin