Global Voices (which has a brand new look, btw) is looking for interactions between bloggers from different countries in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar or Maldives). Does anyone know of any such interactions? Are there conversations taking place across the region? Do you read blogs from across the region? Which are your favourites? Please drop in your thoughts. Many thanks.

UPDATE:

Rezwan from Bangladesh, who has a very good blog called The Third World View sends me his views and an exhaustive list - he couldn't post this as a comment, nor could I on his behalf - perhaps the number of urls made the Radio Userland server filter it as spam?

Here's what he says :

I could not post a comment in your blog hence I am writing to you. You wanted to know about the interactions between the bloggers of the South Asian countries. I am from Bangladesh. I follow the rich variety of some of the wonderful Asian blogs regularly through rss reader. Occasionally active conversations happen between Indian, Bangladeshi & Pakistani bloggers in some of the blogs like The Acorn, Sepia Mutiny, Chapati Mystery, Desi Pundit etc. (e.g. http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/001795.html). I personally have conversed through email with a number of Indian and Pakistani bloggers. The Sri Lankan blogospehere is rather quite small to quote(so far I know). The annual Asian weblog awards promote more blogs from the region. The global voices has a wiki of "bridge blogs" where blogs by country is listed.

Some of my favorites:

Bangladeshi:

* Dak Bangla Intelligence scan - http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/

* Imtiaz's Weblog - http://blog.imtiaz.info/

*Inspirations & creative thoughts - http://mysticsaint.blogspot.com/

* The color of rain - http://nashat.beheshto.ca/

Indian:

* Sepia Mutiny - http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/

* The Acorn - http://opinion.paifamily.com/

* India Uncut - http://indiauncut.blogspot.com/

and lot more

Pakistani:

*Chapati Mystery http://www.chapatimystery.com/

* Off road Pakistan http://ko.offroadpakistan.com/

* Pakistani Perspective - http://www.pakp.com/

Nepal:

* United we blog: - http://www.blog.com.np/

Sri Lanka:

* CSF group blog has a couple of Sri Lankan authors

http://desimediabitch.blogspot.com/

Asia:

Another blog which concentrates on Asia is

AsiaPundit - http://www.asiapundit.com/

Thanks Rezwan.

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