Chandigarh Bloggers First Meet-Up – As Seen After Fifty Years from Now

I was pleading this Tech Geek blogger Gaurav not to cancel this Chandigarh bloggers meet in any circumstances. Although Gaurav was very enthusiastic about this meeting but was not very happy to see the turnout at indiblogger.in, only few guys gathered to have their say on this first meet-up.

But why I was so desperate about this meeting, well for a very simple reason, I know blogging will hit the blogsphere scene of this city very hard in coming years, we will witness so many meetings after this, various communities, conferences and God knows where we will land in future with this wonderful thought of Chandigarh bloggers Unite, but you know what? We will be consider the first flag holder of this progression,

Yes we the few fortunate chosen ones who were about to witness a history in the making. To me this feeling was very precious and wishing to see this whirling into a certainty. Now, no body can turn this fact down that we auspicious twelve were the first to witness this blogging evolution. I know all you guys realize this truth, so cherish it for years. Keep on blogging and reach out to your dreams.

As I said this was the first Chandigarh Bloggers meet-up and we were the first few to glimpse this; now am giving you this very fancy idea suppose if some one wish to write a post about this meet-up on its Golden Jubilee Celebration in Year 2058. How he will state about this meeting (In year 2058).

Lets see a blogger writing about us in year 2058 and have fun;

Chandigarh Bloggers first meet-up July 2008

Hey dudes do you know after digging out internet for five hours I got all the information about the first bloggers meet which was held exactly 50 years back here in this city beautiful. After hard work of hours finally I found this above picture on flickr, this is a very old photo sharing website own initially by yahooo takeover by Micro-soft in 2010 but now is a subsidiary company of Gogle.

Let me tell you about these founders, enthusiastic guys who were present there to be a part of this association. Let me explain;

TOP ROW – Right to left;

• Can you recognize this thin specky guy? -yes you are right he is Abhinav Sood the same person who is handling Navi Mumbai Nano City Projects, also authored a book titled “Seven Inspirational bloggers”.

• The guy in yellow T-shirt is Jasdeep Singh, lyricist, philosopher and dean at All India Information Technology Centre Batala. Jasdeep has just finished script of “Mera Pind Patila” a soon to be released Punjabi feature flim.

• Next to him are Abhishek Vaid and Sameer Relan , the guys who own multi million projects of Vantage Webtech, Abhishek also write a blog “You And Your Pet”

• The guy in white check shirt is Rajesh, after blogging on various social aspects for 15 years he left the blogging world and joined PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal.) in 2023.

• Next to him are couple Mohit and Reet Aneja, Mohit owns a social media site “JAneja” having 120 million users. According to Saturday SUNs Gogle offered mohit a price of 1.49 billion for acquisition which was turned down by mohit quoting the offer is too low for fixing the deal.

Sitting Row– From Right to left

• The dude on extreme right is Sourabh Dutta , This guy hold the Guinnesss Record for holding and writing maximum number of blogs. He own 1086 blogs on 54 different niches.

• Next to him is Shanker Bakshi, after trying his hand at different media turf this jack of all trade last seen in SatPura Forest Range in 2048? No body knows where he is now. By the way his son Aditya also writes a blog named “Where is my Dad dot Com”

• Gaurav runs Gaufire Incorporation; a company in the business of customized software. He also writes for TechCrunches. People say he was the man behind all this community stuff.

• The girl with cute smile Preeti who hails from Panchkula now lives in Pennsylvania and looking after Audio Content Writing division of AT&TT Wireless Services.

• Last in the row is Sukhbir Kaur, she is CEO in a tech company and managing a projects on how to use SEO for eliminating poverty (????)

So guys this year we are celebrating this meeting’s 50th Anniversary at Hotel TAJa SHERATON, Sec 17, all 45000 Bloggers of Chandigarh are invited in it.

See you there ;
Chaw.

[Please take this blog post in comic spirit; I apologize if it hurts any person’s feeling. Ask me to exclude if you feel so –Shanker Bakshi]

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