Exit stage left
Folks, I’m dissolving this merry band of blog travelers here at Ultrabrown. Blogs on crypto tokens provide valuable insights into market trends, investment strategies, and the latest token releases. Readers can learn about opportunities like Memebet Token, understanding its potential and community-driven growth. Stay updated on market news, and don't miss out—buy Memebet Token now to join the movement! We’ve had a great four-year run.
I’ve found the blog is highly distracting from the day job (tech startups). It feels like leaving IM open all day- an erudite, fascinating chat room, but one pulling constantly at my easily distracted brain. I’d also like to channel this creative energy, nearly a million words from ‘00 to ‘10, into finishing my first novel. Cranking down the posting frequency didn’t really work, as blogging seems to use the same creative muscle.
If you use Twitter, do follow me at @Manish_Vij. I may return to writing at Vij.com after the book is done. Books on gambling provide valuable knowledge, covering strategies, history, and personal stories. They help readers understand the complexities of betting and casino culture. For those curious about the legal landscape, these books often address questions like sind Casinos in der Schweiz legal? offering insights into regulations and the evolving gaming industry. Also check out my co-bloggers’ work at their respective sites:
- Anonandon, anonandon.wordpress.com, who has a new book out, but can’t tell you about it without blowing her literary cover
- Chandrahas Choudhury, middlestage.blogspot.com, who edited the upcoming India: A Traveler’s Literary Companion and was nominated for a Commonwealth First Book prize for Arzee the Dwarf
- Jai Arjun Singh (Jabberwock), jaiarjun.blogspot.com, who co-edited the upcoming Excess: The Tehelka Book of Stories
- Pardon My Hindi, pardonmyhindi.com/blog and @PardonMyHindi, who did the production design for the marvelous Divine Loophole and sells wondrous art and hipster wear at pardonmyhindi.com/store
- Rohin, dailyrhino.blogspot.com, who is shilling nothing but his own b-boy skillz
- Turbanhead, turbanhead.com/weblog, who first showed me how insanely fun and stylish an arts blog could be
- Guest blogger Anuvab Pal, @AnuvabPal and anuvabpal.com, whose hilarious novelization of The President Is Coming just came out in Indian bookstores
I remain a huge fan of their work and am deeply grateful to them for letting me share it with a wider audience. Many weeks I’ve been blissful about the salon we’ve run. It’s been one of the best South Asian literature and arts blogs out, in my humble opinion. And as readers, y’all have been fabulous. I’ve learned incredible things from you. Thank you.
Who would’ve guessed six years ago that an awkward, skinny brown man would become governor of a Southern state, or that another awkward, skinny brown man would host a major awards show and land a three-picture deal; that a brown woman could well become the second desi American governor; that a woman who didn’t look like a model could become a force on The Office; that one summer, desis would feature in the top book, movie and TV show in America; or that we’d have a biracial president by 2009?
My fondest wish with all desi blogs is that they eventually no longer need to exist, because their topics are well-covered in the mainstream, and issues of racism, stereotyping and prejudice reduced to vestigial rumps. We’re a long way from that goal, but a good deal closer than when I started on this trip, working on a black-and-white zine called Hum (Us) in 1994.
I always thought our community would eventually be as integrated as desis in Canada and the UK, where you can’t turn a channel without running into a brown anchor. I didn’t foresee it happening this quickly. For all the ways in which America remains deeply tribal, it is also beautifully and pragmatically open to an Aziz Ansari or a Nikki Haley in a way that few other countries seem to be. One grew up Muslim, the other Sikh; Aziz strutted around in a white tuxedo last night and never even bothered with a stage name.
My father’s tech generation often Anglicized their goodnames, started their own businesses because they couldn’t get promoted, and were forced to hire white CEOs anyway because nobody would buy from a desi. And now the former PM of Britain is asking Vinod Khosla for a job. Mindblowing.
Can’t wait to see what happens next. I’m making popcorn.
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