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I found this "relatively old" post on Rhythmic Diaspora's blog, and was surprised how I missed it when it was first published. I've typed a reply, and then decided to post it as a new blog post here.
Dear RD,
First I apologies for late response to this, as I totally lost this one on the Kottu feed, when it appeared and I found this on a post linked in the hottest "Nibras Bawa" debate on Kottu.
Many people has already commented on your original post, and I honestly don't have time to go through each and every comment made above. But I read the entire original post, and would like to comment on the question you pointed at three of us.
First; VIC is totally independent identity from SN and NB. I do not share anything in common with NB (for sure!!), and I do share some ideologies about the war and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, wth SN. But, I personally don't like categorizing me and SN in a same block (Simply because he writes better than me, and my English sucks and it's really disturbing for me to read my own posts, after few weeks!)
Second; I am not a professional writer. I don't write for live. I don;t blog for pleasure or for leisure. My blog has a clear purpose, and I agree it has evolved a lot over the time. When I first began blogging, I didn't have much understanding on how to handle it. I thought it's a good way to publish any thing which comes to my mind. And honestly, I thought it's a good way to earn some extra bucks with AdSense. Some of my early posts are search engine targeted, for popular keywords. (I'm 100% honest here, and I do not have anything to hide) But over the time, I've learnt that, I can do much better things with blogging, than earning few bucks through AdSense.
So I've questioned myself, "what's the purpose of running A Voice in Colombo?". And I found the answer, and that's my number one "mission" on my blog.
"To debunk any anti-Sri Lankan ideas spread on the Sri Lankan Blogosphere, and on any mass media channel in general"
If you look at the posts I've made during last 5 or 6 months (After my re-launch about 6 months ago), you can clearly see this was my main motive. In the process, I do have my own definition of what is "Pro-Sri Lankan" and what is "Ant-Sri Lankan". Calling our soldiers "Uniform clad brainwashed cronies" is definitely anti-Sri Lankan for me, and I have attacked the person who used that phrase (Dinindu De Alwis) on all fronts I can attack him. My personal belief is, "If it is ok for Dinindu De Alwis to to call our soldiers like that; it is totally ok for me to call him a son of a whore, or an LTTE ass licker". If any of the bloggers on Kottu, can call the democratically elected president of this country as the "Buffalo" or call names on the defence secratary, commander in chief of the army of the country; what is wrong if I call those bloggers traitors, sons of bitches, or any other maximum insult I can "offer" to them? Mr. RD; think about this! Your judgement of morality is biased here! It is not only me, SN and NB are using insultive words on blog posts. May be Indi is clever to insult people with better English than me. But still he does insult people!!!! You get my point???
I guess, now you have an idea why I use such rude language at people, when I write on my blog. This blog now has a "focused mission" and, the mission is to debunk the malicious ideas spread by people like Dinindu, Sanjana and sometimes Indi (All though I respect him much more than the other two people I named)
But if you look carefully at my posts I can claim you that, I've never used such rude insults as I used on Dinindu, towards any of the other people on the blogosphere. If you can point out a single post I called India an "LTTE ass licker" or similar language, I would revert that claim. Of course I've used insults on Indi, and many other people. My belief is, if you don't tell "hard enough" to these people, they will never listens. And I don't care even if they listen. My main objective is to "MAKE AWARE" the general readers on Kottu, about the true face of these bloggers. When Indi hailed Mano Ganeshan as a hero; I used hard language to criticize him. That is to convey a message to the general readership of Kottu "Don't trust every word uttered by Indi. He is not god almighty".
I beleive, now I have answered your question loud and clear enough. I am open to criticism, and I hope I've taken your question in the right spirit as you've expected.
From now onwards, you will never see VIC blog about "AdSense tricks" or any other "fancy" topics; just to get search engine crawlers attract. You will not read anymore about my car, my family, or how I eat, sleep, pee, or fuck. Those are the topics for you guys! Instead, you will see only posts related to current affairs in Sri Lanka, and my STRONG opinions on them. You will see more posts, attacking pathetic LTTE dispora members, NGO dollar hunters, and any propeganda bloggers for bankrupted political parties.
P.S
To add to this; I have never exposed the personally identifiable information of people, on my blog and I have always respected the anonymity and personal lives of people. Indi's Father was dragged in many insults made at him; but I have never gone to that level in any of my posts. In fact, I have blogged about a situation where Sanjana Hattotuwa violated the privacy of people, by publishing the IP address of a commenter, with whom Sanjana disagreed.
Now what's your judgement about that?
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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4 People Had Something to Say about this post. Read them and add your thoughts....
VIC - Thank you very much for the considered and lengthy response. I do think you've taken my question in the spirit it was intended and I'm grateful for that.
I must add that I definitely know you're independent from NB and SN, I was only asking the question to the three of you because I saw similar characteristics in each of your blogs, though at very different levels.
Your answer is very helpful to me in explaining the things I wanted to know. Your's isn't the approach I would take but, as usual, I respect your stance.
The important thing for me is that I understand why you take your position. Thanks again and respect.
RD
thanks for the post.
rd sees ppl who annoy his cocoon in the same way, hence his post equating you, me, and nibras bawa when we are in fact different ppl with different ideas.
i posted reply at that time in rd's blog and explained with detail that what he cited as "insulting and confrontational" about my writing is the factual truth. i think my reply was adequate and comprehensive with regard to his "insulting and confrontational" post.
"To debunk any anti-Sri Lankan ideas spread on the Sri Lankan Blogosphere, and on any mass media channel in general"yes. that i noticed heh heh :)
but i don't agree with some of your views
"I am open to criticism, and I hope I've taken your question in the right spirit as you've expected."you take criticism well and that's a good thing
but you know this whole nibras bawa thing is childish as the assvogel points out
@Shehal,
I never intended each and every reader to be agreeing with me on every post. There may be somethings you agree, and most things you disagree. That's how it should be. But I see a common problem on Kottu community. Most Kottu users are "pre-programmed" when it comes to opinions, and take things extremely subjectively.
For example, on what ever the shit Indi is posting on his blog, RD and few others will say "Amen!". Indi returns the favor to RD by saying Amen to "Pee posts" by RD. You scratch my back, and I'll return the favor! This is how Kottu community works,and I don't like it.
As a blogger, there were many times I've agreed with Indi and Sanjana; although I generally attack both of them in my writings. But, they seems to be "pre-programmed" only to take one side of the story. When they see something challenging to their ideology; they simply ignore it and avoid any discussions. Typical political mindset. For instance, Indi is yet to make a comment on my last post about Mano Ganeshan.
About Nibras Bawa! He is a funny guy, and I seriously believed RD and Indi went too much emotional in handling him. We need NB on our blogosphere to entertain us. I firmly suggest to re-instate him on Kottu!
@Sittingnut
Prejudices and generalization is the easiest way to neglect truth. RD is a victim of this syndrome. He lives miles away from the real situation of Sri Lanka (Both physically and mentally; most mentally), and he sees Sri Lanka solely from Indi's and few other "pet bloggers'"eyes. He never try to move out of the frame that he's trapped in, and response to things from his liimited scope of thinking. He never understand the pain of a true Sri Lankan citizen, to hear someone calling our soldiers "uniform clad brainwashed cronies"; because he is not a true Sri Lankan though he claims to be a one. They don't see the picture that, these soldiers work 24X7, just to keep this country undivided, and to keep all the people in Colombo safe from sucide bombs. RD doesn't care of any of these things, cuz he lives a comfortable life out there in London. That's why it is difficult for him to understand our emotional reactions towards cowards like Dinidu and Sanjana. RD will never understand this!
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