Putting together this weeks’ blog mela was an incredibly rewarding experience. I had a wonderful journey through Indian blogdom. There are almost 50 posts featured here. My thanks to all those who nominated. Without Bloglines this task would have been chaotic:)

I have had a trying last two days. My ISP has been taking turns with my electricity provider to delay the Blogmela. For that my apologies.

The Mela Opens.

Let’s start this week’s mela with a warm and funny letter from chankya at vichaar.org to the people of Pakistan. A sampler

Partition is no problem for us either – we’re like so over that breakup. Moreover, we’re sort of used to having Pakistan as our neighbor too (whom would we play cricket against if it weren’t for you ?). Besides, it would sort of suck to have Afghanistan next door. BTW, we heard Musharraf broke up with Osama ?

Vulturo wonders why there isn’t any response from Pakistani blogdom, and wonders if there is such an entity. There is. Check out KO one of the more popular bloggers from Pakistan, and this - an excellent blog on Mukhtaran Bibi Case - from june last year to now.
And Mukhtaran Bibi is a case that Indian blogdom has been following. Sepia Mutiny has this to say.
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