Update: NDTV 24X7 did a story about the governement's ban on sites like blogspot.com. Yes I spoke my bit on the show and I think I spoke for all of us...that was my intention. And I hope everyone of you bloggers will discuss, debate and try to make a difference. My understanding is that the Govt. did not intend to do a blanket ban and that ISP's need to understand that certain blogs need to be blocked and not all blogs as they have done so now. However we need to voice our concerns and raise our voice to protest against this attempt to shut down our voices...my blog is my personal space and if I am not a part of any religious / anti nationalist / terror propoganda why subject my space to this kind of ban! Go figure out a way to ban and monitor the sites that do these things! Everyone of us needs to put across our point(s) and do so right away...go ahead blog your views, shoot emails...make yourself heard. Don't just switch to a different website!
Below is the post I had written before I got to know that this ban was on and a lot as you can see has happened in a day's time...if a normal regular blogger like me can talk and raise my voice...so can all of YOU!!!
I’m a lil bit frustrated right now…actually more than a little bit! For the past three days I haven’t been able to access my blog. I am not too sure why. I don’t know if others are facing this problem. What’s happening is that I can access blogger.com and publish my post and comments that I receive but I can’t view my site or any other blog on blogspot because of which I can’t reply to comments on mine or read new posts and leave comments. I heard about the ban on come sites but I checked with someone who is with a media house and she said the ban is on certain sites. However she said she would check once more and get back to me. There are some people who can view blogs…I envy u lucky people!!!! :-(
And if this isn’t a fall out of the ban then I don’t have the technical know how to figure out why this is happening. I tried explaining this to my internet service provider but I’m not too sure if he understood either and he wasn’t aware of the ban either…hmmmm! I can view my blog through my other blog http://ishipishi.sulekha.com (that has an RSS feed of my regular blog) but not many are aware that I have this on www.sulekha.com too. Anyway, today there’s no point in getting into all that because it’s been raining cats and dogs outside since early morning and like always, when it rains my internet cable shows unplugged! And I know that till the rains don’t let up, no one’s going to venture out and fix this problem.
Not that I am cribbing about the rains! No way! Delhi needed this downpour and I simply love this. Though sitting here alone at home, I am a lil frightened of the sound of thunder and lightening flashes make me jump! And yes I am praying that when I have to go get Vedant from the bus stop at around noon, the rain subsides.
It’s Vedant’s 5th birthday today. But for him, his birthday was on the day of the party :-)! We celebrated it on Sunday and I went quite crazy with around 80 odd people in our not so big flat and this included 30 odd kids! The power let us down several times too. But the kids had a lot of fun. I had to take them out in the lawns and have the games there. But they were too excited to bother about the heat! After the cake cutting ceremony, we had one more round of games and finally people ate and left. Some stayed back for a little longer and left after dinner.
Cleaning up after the party took us couple of hours. “Us” here would mean Rajiv and me. We don’t have a full time help. Vedant went to bed while Rajiv and I scrubbed and cleaned till midnight when I took a shower and finally got something to eat after that. Lol I missed the cake! But right when I was ready to crash, Vedant woke up and demanded to open all his gifts!!! That was exciting too! And he loved all his gifts. I wish people would give mommies and papas gifts too for organizing fun parties!!! Hmmm!
The next day I was tiredddd but funnily, I felt great after my dance classes in the evening. All the lethargy vanished! Vedant missed school because he was up till late in the night excited and thrilled with all his toys. I think what he loved most was what his “bade papa” (Rajiv’s brother) got him – Spiderman Roller blades! I’ve kept them away now coz they’re slightly big for him and in any case he will have to wait till the weekend when Rajiv’s home to help him try them. Last night we set up a police station set and played a while.
I also sat through his dance classes yesterday as there was a parent-teacher’s meeting. Well, his teacher (instructor) is the same guy who teaches me and Vedant always sits through my class too (which is after his is) but this was the first time I got to sit in his class and watch him. I’m a lil disappointed with his lack of attention though he loves the class. Any way Sunny (our instructor) says he’ll take care of this. Meanwhile, back home I get Vedant to practice along with me. Now we have two songs that we need to practice on at home…mine and his! Lolzz…it’s fun :-)!!! He wants papa to dance along too. Papa prefers to watch though :-)
I think if I keep up with the dance routine daily I could lose some weight! It’s more fun than routine workouts too…
Uh-oh…the power’s gone again. I’ll stop now. I’ve been rambling on for too long. I hope that when my connection is restored, I have no more problems with my blog. Although I’ll be able to put up this post, I do miss visiting blogs and reading posts. And I do hope that this is not permanent thing…ban or not…I want my blog and others back!
Ps: The music playing is another favorite “Where the streets have no name” – U2…oh well you can’t hear it if u’re viewing this through http://ishipishi.sulekha.com but the music is there all the same!
And if this isn’t a fall out of the ban then I don’t have the technical know how to figure out why this is happening. I tried explaining this to my internet service provider but I’m not too sure if he understood either and he wasn’t aware of the ban either…hmmmm! I can view my blog through my other blog http://ishipishi.sulekha.com (that has an RSS feed of my regular blog) but not many are aware that I have this on www.sulekha.com too. Anyway, today there’s no point in getting into all that because it’s been raining cats and dogs outside since early morning and like always, when it rains my internet cable shows unplugged! And I know that till the rains don’t let up, no one’s going to venture out and fix this problem.
Not that I am cribbing about the rains! No way! Delhi needed this downpour and I simply love this. Though sitting here alone at home, I am a lil frightened of the sound of thunder and lightening flashes make me jump! And yes I am praying that when I have to go get Vedant from the bus stop at around noon, the rain subsides.
It’s Vedant’s 5th birthday today. But for him, his birthday was on the day of the party :-)! We celebrated it on Sunday and I went quite crazy with around 80 odd people in our not so big flat and this included 30 odd kids! The power let us down several times too. But the kids had a lot of fun. I had to take them out in the lawns and have the games there. But they were too excited to bother about the heat! After the cake cutting ceremony, we had one more round of games and finally people ate and left. Some stayed back for a little longer and left after dinner.
Cleaning up after the party took us couple of hours. “Us” here would mean Rajiv and me. We don’t have a full time help. Vedant went to bed while Rajiv and I scrubbed and cleaned till midnight when I took a shower and finally got something to eat after that. Lol I missed the cake! But right when I was ready to crash, Vedant woke up and demanded to open all his gifts!!! That was exciting too! And he loved all his gifts. I wish people would give mommies and papas gifts too for organizing fun parties!!! Hmmm!
The next day I was tiredddd but funnily, I felt great after my dance classes in the evening. All the lethargy vanished! Vedant missed school because he was up till late in the night excited and thrilled with all his toys. I think what he loved most was what his “bade papa” (Rajiv’s brother) got him – Spiderman Roller blades! I’ve kept them away now coz they’re slightly big for him and in any case he will have to wait till the weekend when Rajiv’s home to help him try them. Last night we set up a police station set and played a while.
I also sat through his dance classes yesterday as there was a parent-teacher’s meeting. Well, his teacher (instructor) is the same guy who teaches me and Vedant always sits through my class too (which is after his is) but this was the first time I got to sit in his class and watch him. I’m a lil disappointed with his lack of attention though he loves the class. Any way Sunny (our instructor) says he’ll take care of this. Meanwhile, back home I get Vedant to practice along with me. Now we have two songs that we need to practice on at home…mine and his! Lolzz…it’s fun :-)!!! He wants papa to dance along too. Papa prefers to watch though :-)
I think if I keep up with the dance routine daily I could lose some weight! It’s more fun than routine workouts too…
Uh-oh…the power’s gone again. I’ll stop now. I’ve been rambling on for too long. I hope that when my connection is restored, I have no more problems with my blog. Although I’ll be able to put up this post, I do miss visiting blogs and reading posts. And I do hope that this is not permanent thing…ban or not…I want my blog and others back!
Ps: The music playing is another favorite “Where the streets have no name” – U2…oh well you can’t hear it if u’re viewing this through http://ishipishi.sulekha.com but the music is there all the same!
And thank u all for all the tips and info on how to view my blog(s) and all other blogs....thanks Keshi, Yashita, Sudeep and many others for the links...!:-)
And NDTV is doing a story on this issue tonite...mail them your concerns....
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