When your people stop listening to you, this is time to write a blog. Your people may still not read the scrap you write but the world will. Or so you may reassure yourself. Even the world may not take cognisance of your invaluable thoughts expressed in extra-ordinary novel style... but only for the time being.
Never mind. This happened with all great people initially. Ultimately, the world comes to realise its mistake and start respecting your talent. Till then keep writing and reading your own blogs! After all, “dil ke bahlaane ko Ghalib yeh khyal achhaa hai.”
So I am also on a blog now. From today onwards I will also be known as a blogger. Like any celebrity. Blog is a channel not only for scholars and celebrities but for a common man with his hitherto unrecognised talent too.
It is an excellent means to give vent to your views and feelings. Excellent means particularly for those who are rejected as writers by the editors of useless papers, periodicals and magazines! Whose one out of twenty full page ‘letters to the editor’ full of substance is published after being pruned to one or two meaningless sentences by those snobbish editors appointed by chance!
Giving your first stage show must be easier than writing your first blog. On stage you know the limited mandate you have. You know the audience you are connecting with. I do not know who I am writing my first blog for! Except the world’s most serious and attentive reader that is me! So I will write for me. Swaantah Sukhaaya (स्वान्त: सुखाय)! For my own pleasure!
You are welcome to enjoy too!
Welcome vikram-sharma to the world of blogs!
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