Experts & Views
I started this blogging competition with a philosophical (attempted) post on law and life. I am ending the competition with some more on the same lines (just to make the exit a bit dramatic).
Note- Had three more posts lined up. But chicken pox got me and I took the two week 'bed rest' diligently.
Me and my three friends
Me and my three friends-
Mind, Body and Soul
Live in unison
To maintain the cobwebs
Of autonomous threads.
Each on is difference.
Body is the beast-
Playful and powerful,
Ventures into alleys dark.
The mind mindful, flogs hard.
And when, the then watch glass,
Turns into an imprisoned,
Subdued heap of sand;
The soul discards his disguised,
Self-ostracized self.
Unchained he scours
The gory great grave
Which was dug by the beast
And leveled hurriedly by the mind.
The body is the criminal,
The mind, his lawyer.
Soul is the judge and I,
I am the witness-
A witness to the unending trial.
Ah! Alas! Mind, body and I die.
The soul sits on the pyre and bids goodbye.
PS- Had three more posts lined up. But chicken pox got me and I took the 'bed rest' diligently.
Experiments with truth, falsehood, greed, jealousy etc.
1.) For the first few posts I commented on my own blog posts. Its not difficult. You can hop among computers at the library and chuck some anonymous comments. Even if you do it through the same computer, with the same IP address...Kian can't do much. :)
2.) If that was not enough my comments on my own posts were egotistic. Many of them read 'great post'; 'wonderful writing' etc. Some comments also posed questions (anonymously) so that Legal poet could reply to them and carry on the discussion forward.
I did this for hits. I loved 'hits'. More the merrier. With a comment posted your blog title gets showed up in the 'recent comments' listing and makes for say half a dozen extra hits.
3.) But yes...I rarely, if ever criticized a co-blogger anonymously.
4.) And yes...after those first few posts I stopped commenting on my own posts. LegallyIndia announced that hits don't matter and I too was bored with all this.
PS- This is not to garner votes from people who will say 'oh! he is so truthful' or to dissuade those presently cursing me. Read this and forget this, please.
My take on bloggers
Folly Nariman is the best (though I don't think she will be a part of this edition of the blogging competition), Nandii is a terribly close second. I am placed third. Danish is awesome. LegalDrift and John2010 are awesome too. I wish both of them take away the social blogging prizes. Napster looks good though I haven't read his recent posts.
Legal Popat was a legend.
I am not too big a fan of sss's writing. Anirban, I thought did a couple of genius posts but then many of his posts read like a law student's research project- unedited, un-formatted and unreadable.
ps- my personal take. Please don't take personally.
Thank you LegallyIndia for this wonderful platform. Truckloads of thanks too Mr. Kian Ganz and Legal Dodo for encouragement, support and guidance. Thank you everybody....the commenters, the critics, the personal messagers.
PS- the post was written in a hurry. Excuse me for the typos.
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You have quite a fan following.
P.S. I am a more of a prose person. :D
All luck with the competition and get well soon Poet.
And since my name never seems to appear on any comment as usual...
Cheers!
SSS
Take a break from writing if you must. But it will be extremely short-sighted to stop simply because LI's blogging competition has come to an end. Kian's site is a wonderful platform to air your thoughts. A lot of people who matter in the industry will read what you write, even if you don't hear from them. The long term benefits that you will get from continuing to write, including monetary returns, will be far greater that all the prize money that you may or may not win here.
All the best!
Legal Dodo
I wished to write more on the experiments section and even for the 'my take on bloggers part' (i planned to predict the winners) but couldn't since health, time and internet speeds didn't permit me to do that.
And yes...I'll surely continue to write. Have at least 4 posts (which were earlier planned for this edition of the competition) still lying dormant.
Thanks once again for the comment.
@sss
Redundant? I think I specialized. :P
Just kidding. And thank you for taking my comment on your writing in a manner it ought to be. I actually like your writing...am just not a fan. :D
I hope you get well soon and recover well to receive your well deserved accolades.
Regards
Meghna
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