Indians and Science blogs

Arunn has collected thoughts from folks who could talk science but do not do so. He concludes with the question "Is science blogging in India yet to have its time?"

Hop over and make your point. Come back and read the below in leisure.

Every week I do a search to find science blogs by Indians that I could add to my reading list. It's slim pickings. I'd look at the number of science related blogs elsewhere (see Pharyngula's blogroll for instance). Shit man, I would tell myself, we Indians are fucked. We'll learn, we'll grow and we'll adopt technology as it suits us but we won't share our learning. We won't descend back into the pit and share lest the other climbers keep us down forever. We've got better things to do. We are the Upwardly Mobile. We are the face of New India.

Oh come on, I'd nudge myself, blogs are just another cavewall. Place your paint dripping hand on a chosen spot and move on.

But, the mind doesn't move. It goes round and round like a man lost in a desert.

The culturally inherited ennui for all things unrelated to religion is still going strong I would console myself. We've got all the audience we want for our armchair philosophizing right at home - I mean, we are one billion here, crowding like finches in galapagos - why bother with the internets and pander to the clueless masses jacked into the world wide bullshit.

I'd search a bit more and ruminate.

It's the lack of access to internet, lack of tools, and such. If the scientifically minded Indians had the same level of internet penetration as Americans, we'd all be blogging science (or atleast downloading perversions of Kamasutra), I'd reason.

But then, it'd occur to me, we do what we could. Those with Blogger, Wordpress or Moveable Type discuss with their readers at their blogs. Those with passion for a science instill a love of science in their children - like my father who made science fun for me.

In the end, it may turn out that Indians and science blogs are like water and oil. They won't mix naturally. This calls for unnatural acts. We must act unnaturally. Unnatural is fun. Unnatural is exhilaration. Science is unnatural - like climbing Mount Everest, not natural and easy - like faith and religion.