The Delhi Times section of The Times of India carried out an article on Indian bloggers. It says that we are a “shockingly tiny group comprising mostly journalists and IT professionals’ despite “tall claims” by us.



Why? Only four bloggers attended the so called 3rd Delhi Bloggers Meet hosted by a certain self-styled ‘elite’ blogger called Tarun Pall. Well, Tarun pops every now and then in blogosphere. He has got a blog (or maybe a couple of them...we don’t know, like others) and comments on other’s postings. The search for “Tarun Pall blog” yielded 201 results in Google. He is of course, what he terms himself as - an ‘elite’ blogger. *Heh*



Now, why bloggers should be bothered to attend the meet? An avid blogger myself, I have had no idea when the meet was going to take place and where. Besides, even if I did, I wouldn’t have attended it. Does he want to be some kind of a bloggers’ union president? For us, Tarun Pall is a non-entity in blogosphere and the article in Delhi Times is nothing more than crap.



There are many, thousands of bloggers from India who have more presence than Tarun Pall in blogosphere.



India Daily commented upon the silence of newspapers on the IIPM scam. Maybe, they are no sure what to do now, so publishing crap to downplay Indian bloggers. Just search for Rashmi Bansal blog in Google and it will yield over 59,000 results and search for Gaurav Sabnis blog to stumble upon over 66,000!! They are making a huge impact on the student community in India with their blogs unearthing the IIPM scam.



There are hundreds of thousands of bloggers from India at this moment and they have impacted the Indian psyche well. The IIPM scam was unearthed following Indian bloggers’ initiative. I personally know a large community of bloggers from South India. A certain blog by a certain student against a company that came for campus recruitment almost went to the court. Just an enquiry into Indian blog sites or portals that provide bloggers to open an account and start blogging like Rediff.com will reveal how big and diverse the indigenous blogging community is. People from small cities like Patna in Bihar province and Dibrugarh in Assam province write blogs. They come from all walks of life, and from all age groups.



Now, back to The Times of India on its article. Well, how would one get to know about an obscure blogger like Tarun Pall, who didn’t have a single post on the raging IIPM scam blog war?Now, back to Times of India on its article. Well, how did it (TOI) get to know about an obscure blogger like Tarun Pall but failed to get even a whiff on the raging blog war on the IIPM scam? Then there is some more crap about this Indian blogger’s assumed fear of IT Act and standards of the posts he makes. We are already having more than what the crap article terms as ‘Dan Rather’ moment. Arindam Chaudhuri is nailed by the bloggers and the institute’s future has been substantially jeopardized. Of course for crap-dishers Dan Rather is newsworthy in India (how many people know about him here anyway?) but not a prominent educational institution! Just search for IIPM Scam in Google and you will know what I am trying to say.



The Times of India is turning from pathetic to comical...and rapidly too.





Update: Tarun Pall never said he was an elite blogger, according to him and guys who attended the meeting. And I, for the one believe him now. Catch more of Tarun here.