Mumbai Metropolitan Region Bloggers Meet AKA Bombay Bloggers Meet

Sizzling Bloggers



Mumbai bloggers on Salem's Hit List. No one dare hits his popularity. The pic is the list of the bloggers who attended the Bloggers meet at Nirmal Lifestyles Mulund, taken by Salem for alleged attempt to topple him from the TOI frontpage by a group of bloggers.

It was good turnout, not so large not too small. Four more bloggers +1 came in later after the Salem's list was taken. After 2 ca'fe each for me, Mandar and Shantanu ( 3 for Amit, Anand and Ravi) , a sizzling blogger's dinner, some interesting discussions and then some more capuchinos, and lots of libertarianism and Manipur (and some pullable cheeky talks) we decided to call it a day, or an evening at 11:15 pm. Thanks Ravi for such a wonderful Evening. I never imagined Bloggers meet could be so interesting. Borrowing a phrase from Patrix, nerve endings firing away, indeed. Looking forward to meeting you Patrix in the next meet.
BTW, there was a correspondent from a major daily again(Guess!), no kidding!!


Attendence sheet:

Ravikiran
Suryaraghunathan
Nikita( blogging soon)
Mandar
Shantanu
Urs Truely
Mrs and Mr Anand
AmitV

Late Comers:
Gaurav
Sarika
Candrashekhar and
Sumita


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Update: It was a very Interesting meet, and I only wished I had attended more blogger meets. Interesting group of people, at least twenty percent Phds and another 10% going for a Phd ;-) . We thought of doing some MSM bashing but then thought it was too insignificant.

Anand and Amit had a very heated argument on socialism which I caught on Camera, but Salem threatened me not to publish them, since it would have eclipsed his list footage. An incorrigible opportunist that I am I fed them my usual dose of my NE-General-Manipuri-in-Particular Issues. Since I was the guest of honour, they had but to oblige, however unpalatable my topic. Amit didn't fail himself either, offering his thought that absolute freedom might just be the solution(update: solution to the problems of Manipur). I almost got sold to the idea, and asked for more links on it, since I was a little uneasy with the idea of giving absolute freedom to AK totting Commies.;-)

But the sizzlers at the Grill were far from filling, and they don't serve 1.5 plates ;-)

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Update: Amit- Ok about Non sequitur and logic; how about this, " Professor, I love you and you love your daughter so is it wrong that I love your daughter".

I didn't mean that Absolute freedom might give rise to AK totting Commies, blame it to my language and a super fast update. I meant I was unconfortable with the idea of giving absolute freedom to the AK totting Commies and what they could do with all that freedom... Even with restricted freedom, they are doing quite a bit. And take it in Humour, I know that absolute freedom will not lead to Anarchy or communism and also that they would happily give up their arms for a little freedom. And that the freedom we are talking about doesn't include "coercion" of any form which very well includes AKs.

Ah yes, I have been thinking we could do with some freedom, like freedom to roam at night, freedom of not having to be stopped every few kilometers, freedom from extortion etc etc. And yes I am giving it a lot of thought. cheers


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