A New Start to Blogging

Fifteen years is light years in the interwebs. That is how long it will be soon since the term blog was first used in April, 1999. Blogging started a few years before that. Today, blogging is on the decline and micro-blogging in the form of twitter is the easier, faster and crisper medium.

Still, there are quality blogs which exist. Gideon Haigh, one of the best cricket writers around, updates Cuts and Glances quite regularly nowadays. A few months ago, he dissected an article written by Indian broadcaster and journalist Harsha Bhogle, titled Harsher Bhogle. It was not just an analysis of a piece -  it was a debate of about what cricket administrators are doing versus what they should be doing, ideally, according to Haigh. 

While cricket pieces abound in news papers and online publications, the informality of a blog lets one penetrate through the crevices. For writers and people who love to write, a blog is like a canvas is for a painter.

I have loved the medium for more than a decade now. For almost a decade in that, I have blogged on sports in Sportolysis. In A Blue Plate, I wish to explore more than just sports. Dictionary.com defines blue plate as - 

A plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.

I will explore things I cherish - cricket, cinema, travelling, photography and of course, writing, in all of that. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I will writing it.