Bloggers around the world unite and take the credit for respecting the dignity of the public space provided by the new communication technologies. Bloggers are a dominant force in the society. Bloggers are heard now. Reputed mainstream media do give space and time to bloggers' point of view on issues of importance. I remember legendary author and critic Thomas Friedman saying you can’t do journalism in pajamas. True. I still believe that a formal training in journalism is a must to take up the public role to raise issues of critical social importance.
But here is a blessing in disguise. Now, prominent scholars, authors, writers, thinkers, journalists, advertising professionals, film-makers and others are blogging. For long, I have enjoyed reading Pritish Nandy, Vir Sanghvi, MJ Akbar, Gurcharan Das, Santosh Desai, Shobha De, Nikhat Kazmi, Poonam Saxena and many others. Now, I read their blogs more than their regular writing. I find them more frank, open and candid. Is it because blogging has liberating effect?
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