Letter to the Hoot: Appalled by weblog article

IN Opinion | 30/05/2003

There is tons of good stuff in the Indian blogosphere if you only care to look.

I was appalled by the article `Weblogs: a library of live autobiographies` by Jyoti Kiran. Please get your facts straight before publishing such nonsense. It is a really poorly researched piece. The tone too is shockingly biased - gender stereotypes, racism ... what next? There`s tons of good stuff in the Indian blogosphere if you only care to look.

Dina Mehta
Explore Research & Consultancy
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