My odyssey to blogosphere began in 2007,a lift off with a
external thrust from a buddy who was always abreast with the latest and
trending stuff. The usual chat revolved around everything; from the humdrum to
buzz to scandals and slander and the word weblog was briefly referred to
somewhere in the course of the jabbering, maybe like a footnote which went like
this...”Suni, that is the trend these days with people globally, becoming
interactive through their blog posts, I have started my page with blogspot and
so could you as you have a passion to write.” My thoughts were channelized to
the last few words that she uttered about the zest part and that ignited my
curiosity! All other chores were put on the back burner and I jumped on the
bandwagon and soon I was in the saddle raring to go. And that was the genesis
of http://www.specs-buffy.blogspot.com in 2011 after a four year period of glorious uncertainties.
no big bang explosions but the birth of a tiny star(
unabashedly call myself a star!) in a galaxy. The first few months were a
revelation, well only to me, with the pages in my blog going back in time. For
the next couple of years, the sojourn lost steam and the enthusiasm died down;
it was now a saunter and a stroll like a lazy walk in the park, more precisely
prosaic as a tame game of golf. The
posts became few and far between and the blogger in me lay in a state of
comatose with the reader fraternity ready to pull the ventilator off and do
euthanasia a world of good! But miracles do happen and Indiblogger resuscitated me
and rekindled the dying fire. I was enamoured by a news item with a photo graph
(thank God there are no pop up blocks in newspapers!) of indibloggers making
merry in Windsor Manor in Bengaluru, in the autumn of 2011.
My blog expedition
renewed like NASA’s Interstellar voyager mission, slow but steady, exploring
the cornucopia of Wordsmiths!
A few in this inventory have become red giants but many
have tirelessly worked their way to become Supernovas!!! The appealing indiblogger belvedere has had
me spellbound with its hodgepodge of activities such as meets, contests and for
sure the indivine. The jingles “Indian by birth and bloggers by choice” and “We
blog, therefore we are” sound more like war cries with a vengeance to engross and enslave you, bringing
in its way friends, philosophers, guides, well wishers, benefactors, backers
and patrons. The chance encounters with a few have been symbolic and meaningful
with a rich experience that is exhilarating and inspiring, rip roaring in fact!
I am deeply honoured and privileged to introduce to my readers these doyens and
stalwarts who have held me in sway!
? K Parthasarathi, a maverick
story teller whose fables are a hybrid with the charm of R K Narayan’s and
twists of O Henry, leave us in absolute awe and suspense, always yearning for
more. He has to his credit over 1000 short stories, (maybe more as I have lost
count!)and each one of them is a sparkling gem. Armed with a brilliant and
powerful narrative skill along with a keen sense of observation and a wide
repertoire of words, his stories reflect the common place with good morals and
ethics as the corner stones. The readers
will be infatuated by the “random thoughts” and “reflections” that has grown
over the years by leaps and bounds and the author has aged with grace and the
wine just got better and better. For the vernacular, he has the tamil blog that
has a valuable set of admirers. Being a Cost Accountant by profession, he has the
added reputation of writing articles for the Business line newspaper in his heydays apart from contributing to dime a dozen online
magazines and papers which he still does with a flourish.
For me personally, he is an icon I look up to,
for his remarkable attitude, his frank, forthright and constructive views on my
posts which have been very motivating and highly self rewarding, and above all,
for his extraordinary talent at writing with consummate ease and proficiency. I
have embraced him as my grandfather and fervently hope that I imbibe his
stupendous qualities! May the Almighty give him a long life so that he can hold
many more readers as ransom to his random thoughts flowering as stories! I am sure you all are thirsting to get into
the magical world of this phenomenal story teller, you can at:
? Mir Fleur, who
blogs at http://www.tsps-of-mir.com/ with
the title “The somewhat peculiar story
of Mir” is an embodiment and powerhouse of talent. I am dumbfounded by her
creativity despite the perplexities of life that abound her. She may have never
counted her problems but the thorns have been blissfully converted to her
strengths and she has risen like a phoenix. A Scholar in Mathematics and Control systems,
Dr. Fleur has the uncanny ability of writing memoirs and nostalgic posts of her
childhood that strike a chord with me and she reminds me many a time of Enid
Blyton, whom we all have grown up with! I understand that many of her fictional
works have been published in national dailies and also is the author of three
full length novels that she is itching to publish as a book. This proves her
credentials as a versatile writer with the ingredients of subtle humour,
imagination and ingenuity.
For me personally, she is a
belligerent lady who has taken life in her stride, living through her miseries
but still smiling, enchanting me with her artistry. She exudes in her
personality an extreme degree of positivity and remains an enigma. For a life
beseeched with hardships and predicaments and whose second name is adversity, I
pray to the Lord to be more merciful and kind to this wonderful human being.
My dear friends, you may soak in her writings
by visiting her domain.
? Somali K Chakrabarti, who
“Scribbles and Scrawls“ at https://prepforum.wordpress.com/ is a bountiful
writer with fertile imagination and creativity that stimulates, emboldens and
sets our thought process in hyper active mode. She arouses a sense of curiosity
with her haikus and tankas. She has taken the blogging world by storm with her
book called “Lei: A wreath for your soul” that has all the celebrations of
nature and reflections of life with a wonderful and unique collection of poems.
She is the Tzar of fantasy and has the power to transport us to a new realm
that has the promised milk and honey! An engineer by profession with the Sloan
Fellow tag from the prestigious London School of Business, writing comes
naturally to her and her posts leave us craving for more!
For me personally, she is the
quintessential manifestation of all things nice and lovely and an avatar of creativity.
She impresses and invigorates me to such an extent that I keep going back to her
posts like bees to a flower! I am certain that my followers would also flock to
her blog page! The awards that are bestowed on her speaks volumes about her
skills that are unmatched and non pareil!
? Maniparna Sengupta Majumdar, an
exemplar of imaginativeness and originality oozing with flair. Her blog page
titled “scattered thoughts” is a perpetual ocean of thoughts that sets us to
reflect, speculate, ponder and appreciate. She is at ease with any topic
ranging from poems to fiction to travel to book reviews to photography and so
there is something for everyone. The choice of words and phrases are vivid and
scintillating and little wonder that Maniparna has a huge fan following.
For me personally, in the
first place I was enchanted with her name that led me to explore her blog and I
was amply rewarded with an abundance of beautifully penned poems and haikus!
Folks, you too can get drenched in the rain of haikus by visiting her page at https://maniparna5002.wordpress.com/
My interstellar voyage
continues, delving deep into the unknown galaxy, exploring new stars and
supernovas.....
