A Blog on my Blogs
Post my retirement and shifting to Mumbai in
2006, I rambled along without anything to occupy my time. I became a member of The Fine Arts Society in
Chembur and attended their music concerts and drama festivals. I noticed that the audience was mostly senior
citizens like me ‘I observed very interesting traits among such audiences like simple
living, unostentatious appearance, religiously inclined, interest in classical
music, and a subtle sense of humour. I
decided to write for a hobby about men and matters I was acquainted with. When I learned that many internet users create virtual Persona while writing stories
and Fanfiction as a kind of
self-insertion I created the characters Chembur Mama and Chembur Mami and wrote my early pieces with those titles. I used the
internet to publish them as Blogs by Rambler Raman. This was in 2014 and since then I have
written around 40 blogs available on www.avramanblogspot.com.rambler
raman.
Before I go further, let me share a few facts
about blogs. A blog is a regular record of one’s thoughts, opinions, or
experiences put on the internet for others to read. It also can include photos
and videos about a particular subject. The blog is different from a podcast, a collection or series of digital audio files downloaded or listened to
via the internet. A blogger is a person who writes regularly for an online journal
or website. Such a person is different from a writer or a columnist publishing
in a newspaper or magazine. The use of the
internet as the media for publication distinguishes the blogger from the columnist
or the writer. There are 600 million
active blogs on the internet ranging from online personal diaries to
influential sources of information on
virtually any topic like food blogs,
travel blogs, health blogs,, and fashion & beauty blogs to name a few. Like any communication medium, the blog should also have a purpose to educate, inform, influence, or entertain/amuse. However,
Personal blogs based on one’s personal perception and experience about men and matters
have a large following and receive both appreciative and critical comments
Coming back to my creations, I adopted early in my blog writing career to write mostly about my personal experience and opinion. This was easy because no research was involved unlike my
Ph. D or post-doctoral dissertations. I would
intersperse my blogs with humor by narrating jokes [1]or
piquant situations [2]. These provided the necessary spice to the anecdotes
in my blogs. I also wrote some self-deprecating pieces where I projected
myself as “kalnayk.[3]
Some of my blogs are pure fiction where I described the train journey of a
young man which brought a total change in him including his name[4]. Writing about people and places is another genre of some of my pieces. [5]
My attempt to use allegory in my blogs was abandoned as a reader identified the
person written about.[6]
I did not want to get into any libel suits. I also had
a very critical and admonishing comment on my blog containing my perception of
the General Knowledge questions in the civil services examination. [7]
I do not claim a big readership but the few who
have commented on my blogs have been very generous and appreciated my style of
writing and humor. In the end, I must say that I find immense pleasure in
writing blogs. My motivation is not to earn money by blogging though many use brands and endorsements of products and services in their blogs
and earn well. I write and derive “atma
thripthi”
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