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South Asian blog roundup

Categories: Popular Post, First Post!, South Asia, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Citizen Media

Bangladesh:

- Subhan shares some typical & unique Bangladeshi styles from personal observations in a post called “You know you are Bangladeshi when*@#!!” [1]

- Arafat of ‘Anthology’ analyses [2] a news about “the first Muslim gay marriage in Pakistan” in the light of a previous discussion on the subject which reveals [3]:

“In sharp contrast to Christianity, which considers homosexuality to be a pathological character defect and homosexuals to be abnormal, perverted individuals, Islamic jurisprudence adopts a more restrained attitude, according to which attraction towards members of one's own sex is viewed as entirely normal and natural.”

- Asif explores [4] the possibility whether a Dhaka-centric FM-Radio-Channel transmitting live commentary of the Dhaka traffic be established on the basis of the visual display of the traffic using GPS technology.

- Sadiq tells [5] about the power of chanting in his blog “Inspirations and Creative Thoughts” and posts a beautiful ‘prayer for Ramadan’ [6].

India:

- Neha is angry [7] at the Delhi High Court's ruling that the marriage of 15 year old minor girls are valid.

- Nitin of “The Acorn” tells us about a new Indian online craze “PublicGyan [8]” – (The public knowledge exchage ), which is an online prediction futures market. He links [9] to the plugins for Blogger, MovableType and WordPress — that enable bloggers to display their PublicGyan profile on their blogs.

- Kamla Bhat provides [10] podcasting of headline news from India regularly.

- Charu has details of the festival of nine nights and ten days [11].

-Abhi of Sepia Mutiny analyses the notion – “Do arranged marriages contribute to terrorism?” [12]

Maldives:

- Iruvaihudhu claims [13] that the Maldives president Mamun A. Gayoom's son Ghassan is his chosen successor.

Nepal:

- Samudaya.org has the latest [14] on the political turmoil Nepal is facing.

- United We Blog posts [15] an experience of a Nepali Gay.

Pakistan:

-Via a Pakistani girl's blog we get the news of a 7.6 magnitude earthquake [16] in Islamabad and Rawalpindi extending to New Delhi in India, Sri Nagar in Kashmir, Peshawar and Lahore in Pakistan.

- Sepoy of “Chapaty Mystery” discusses [17] six different views often heard in the West.

- Shirazi of “Light Within” explains [18] Ramadan.

Sri Lanka:

- Colombo goes crazy [19] over books!

- The Magic [20] of Music from ‘One One Things’.

- Fear… Its causes and result in the Sri Lankan Context via Komisiripala [21].

- Nittewa has thoughts [22] on being Sri Lankan.