If one goes by what happens on the social media these days one walks away with the impression that everyone is ready to talk. Without wanting to hear anyone else out, of course. It is so much of yada-yada all over that no one is quite sure if it is informed views that one is reading or simply wayward rants. This isn’t really unnatural or unexpected because one cannot really compare a long post on any issue with a few lines over-burdened with directionless emotions. What this also means is that more and more people on the social media need to head to blogs, if reading long editorials in newspapers makes them yawn and turn away from the page and straight into the heart of some gossip column.
This is exactly what has prompted me to write a series of not-so-short and yet not-so-long posts on various issues that have made it to be classified as news. No, these posts are not going to report what you may already have heard on television channels or one of these newsy apps that have mushroomed like the Wuhan virus does even today.
However, it is not easy to decide on what to go ahead with and in which order. This is where I stumbled upon the BlogchatterA2Z 2021 edition post and decided to go ahead with it. Read on and you’ll know what I will be writing about.
Yes, the articles will be vaccinated with a bit of news but then, as I have already mentioned, it isn’t going to be straight-forward reporting. I shall be picking up issues and airing my own views about the way things have happened or may happen. The blogchatter method of using the English alphabet to give an order to things is rather interesting and I have adopted it, though in my own way. As things stand now even I do not know how difficult it is going to be writing six days a week until the entire alphabet is done, but I do know that even thinking about the posts that I have planned has been exciting.
Sharing with you the tentative list of topics that I have jotted down… a few may be missing but will be completed during the course of this short journey.
A – What are they talking about? Age, alcohol, and addiction
B – What are they talking about? Bhakt, bhakti, and brickbats
C – What are they talking about? Curfew, cacophony, and confusion
D – What are they talking about? Dharnas, dissent, and democracy
E – What are they talking about? Encounters, enforcement, and epicaricacy
F – What are they talking about? Faith, freedom, and fanaticism
G – What are they talking about? Greed, garbage, and goons
H – What are they talking about?
I – What are they talking about?
J – What are they talking about? Judges, justice, and judgmental
K – What are they talking about?
L – What are they talking about? Logos, logic, and liberty
M – What are they talking about? Mandir, masjid, and madness
N – What are they talking about? Notions, nations, and nationalism
O – What are they talking about? Orifice, orgy, and outrage
P – What are they talking about? Pawri, pastime, and passion
Q – What are they talking about? Queues, quests, and quacks
R – What are they talking about? Rants, ratings, and reality
S – What are they talking about?
T – What are they talking about? Travels, trends, and trolls
U – What are they talking about? Upright, uproar, and upset
V – What are they talking about? Vigilant, vigilante, and values
W – What are they talking about?
X – What are they talking about?
Y – What are they talking about?
Z – What are they talking about?
I know some of the alphabets are yet to be linked to some topic… but this will be done as I reach that stage. Not that I couldn’t have filled them all up but then news has its own unpredictable ways to pounce upon us and be so interesting or important or both that not writing about something that may happen between now and the time it takes me to reach that alphabet, can be unfair to it.
This blogchatter marathon is going to begin on the first of April 2021 and I will be linking each of my posts even on this post. Do read, share your opinion, and talk about my uploads on your own social media platforms.
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Arvind Passey
24 March 2021
