Sunday, 15 May 2005

Delhi Blogs and Nostalgia

I was searching for new works of Mukul to add to his page on my website Kalpana. That is how I came across the blog of a girl called Sonal.
 
The pictures of the park over Pallika bazaar parking and CP in Delhi were like long lost friends.
A bridge on a foggy day at central park in Connaught Place, Delhi, India 2005

From her blog-links, I went to blogs of other persons. From their links to still other blogs.
 
It is so addictive, this blog-hopping. 
 
Reading about thoughts, poems, stories, feelings of people in Delhi, because I still miss it, twenty years after leaving it. The word "Home" brings back images of Delhi in my mind. Who knows how long does it take to get over the nostalgia of our old homes?
 
I think that the nostalgia thrives on distances and absences. The more internet develops and more people from Delhi will come online, this nostalgia will also become routine.  
 
So many persons talk about their lives on the blogs. Lives after lives after lives. All similar and yet different. Or, I should say, all different and yet similar.

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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous20 July 2006 at 16:43

    Exactly!

    Love to read blogs after blogs on Delhi...can u send me some links? i am new to blogging

    email: reeta.skeeter@yahoo.com

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