There's a nice Businessweek (asia edition) article about Blogger shortage in India. My instant reaction was, they should hire me and my posses and put us up in a nice hotel in Bangalore, and let us fill up the server space.
Not that I'm not already doing that. It's getting exhausting to keep my profiles on friendster, myspace, facebook, hi5, zorpia, bebo, ringo, xanga and so on updated. This web 2.0 crap developed for "this Jennifer-Love-Michelle-Sarah-Felicity looking" (freely plagiarized from Will and Grace) generation is making me age faster, and I can't remember which picture is on which profile, and who knows what.
So, back to India. The two pictures on top are about the "inappropriate" public display of affection between Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness program for truck drivers. Later, the people of India burnt effigies of RG and posters of SS. Way to focus on what's important.
I have mixed feelings about India every time I go there. The books are cheap, the food are much cheaper, the streets are safer and people are in general nice to you (unless they are cab drivers). But from my experience of Goa, Mumbai, Nagpur and Kolkata, it is not a country for gen "web 2.0". And because there are such hypocrisy like the Gere-Shetty, AIDS is rising faster than any other in this part of the world.
I want the freedom and the cosmopolitanism (if there's a word like that). But I also strongly want to preserve myself. So, in the end I think it's better to stick to my corner of the world and use my time on random musings. Nothing's safer than voyeurism.
