Desicritics
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Desicritics[1] is an online magazine that explores the world from the perspective of "desis", that is, people from South Asia. It provides news and opinion with a global South Asian perspective.
The site was launched on January 26, 2006 by Aaman Lamba, who previously worked with Eric Olsen on Blogcritics. Aaman Lamba and his wife Deepti Lamba co-own the site.
The site features articles from over 300 bloggers from around the world that cover a wide range of topics, from the macaca scandal to the assassination of Pakistani tribal chieftain Bugti. Desicritics covers news in the areas of culture, politics, business, sports, media and technology among others. The site also features fiction from up and coming authors.
Desicritics brings together high quality news, opinions, and reviews across a wide variety of fronts and the funky, eclectic, personality-driven spirit of the blogosphere all in one package. Desicritics is about South Asia, including about what South Asians think about no matter what topic, as well as non-desis' views on global topics. Desicritics has a focus on exploring what it means to be South Asian in a world where desis are everywhere, doing everything, and opinionating about their world.
Desicritics articles are syndicated by numerous news aggregator sites and online magazines including Topix, Indianpad and mytoday.com. Desicritics.org also serves as an official news source for Google. Desicritics is representative of the next generation of media and citizen journalism.
The South Asian Blogosphere has been burgeoning of late, growing by leaps and bounds, and providing new channels of communication between social groups, and building global interactive communities that cross socio-political boundaries in a manner unusual in the South Asian polity.
[edit] Desicritics team
- Publisher: Aaman Lamba
- Executive Editor: Sujatha Bagal
- Uber-Blogfather: Eric Olsen
- Executive Producer: Eric Berlin
- Technical Director: Phillip Winn
- Senior Editors: Deepti Lamba, temporal, Kishore Gopalan, Nandhu
- Other Editors: Sakshi Juneja, Huzaifa Das, ShoeFiend, Lavanya (DesiGirl), Gaurav Sood (Spincycle)
- Legal Issues: Justene Adamec
