Blogging Blocked in India

Hi everyone! There is upheaval in the blogging world in India!! Blogger.com along with many other sites has been blocked by the Indian Government. This has been done fearing anti-State activities, especially in the wake of the Mumbai blasts. BUT the repercussion has been quite unacceptable as it has extended to blocking out bloggers. The debate has shifted to curtailing of freedom of speech in a democratic land.

I have not been able to access your blogs since the past few days. It is only sometime back that I learnt one could access blogs through a proxy server which is what I am doing now.

A lot has been written about this matter already by the media and fellow bloggers as well. I would like to paste some links for you here for reference.

Some of the many news reports

Govt cracks down on websites, blogs
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?leftnm=lmnu2&subLeft=1&autono=98682&tab=r

Indian bloggers fight government censorship
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/07/19/indian_bloggers
_fight_government_censorship.html

Press Coverage of Internet blocking in India
http://censorship.wikia.com/wiki/Press_Coverage_of_The_Ban

Blogs blocked; is Emergency coming?
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/are-we-heading-towards-emergency--ii/16034-11.html


Some of the many bloggers who have written about the matter

http://traveltalesfromindia/2006/07/what-is-up-with-blogspot-blogger-sites.html

http://whereisvijay.blogspot.com/2006/07/blogspot-blogger-is-banned-in-india.html#comments

http://kalpalata.blogspot.com/