Global Voices Summit - Touching Base
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Introduction Session of GV Summit - New Delhi 2006 |
Now getting back to the topic at hand - Global Voices Summit, New Delhi. Touched base, Habitat Center at 8.45 am and after sorting out a little confusion, thanks to Neha I was able to find my way to the conference hall. A medium sized semi-circle room filled with unfamiliar faces but some known virtual friends. Frankly speaking, I am sitting here but I am still finding it so hard to get over the reality that I am actually pursuing something that I took so lightly a couple of months back.
In the span of 20 minutes, I met desi-bloggers who till today I had only heard or read about.
The first blogger I bumped into, who considers me to be a “wacky blogger” (and but obviously Rakhi Sawant has a lot to do with it) was Kamla Bhatt. Needless to say she is an amazing lady who not only has an interesting blog but a charismatic attitude as well.
Thru her I was introduced to Jace, with whom I an interesting conversation on none other but the kissy-licious Malika Sherawat. At the tea room, I walked into Aparna Ray and we had this, “I think I know you” kind-da look.
Finally around 9.30 am, the first session of the summit began. I heard someone saying to someone, “If we wait any longer, it will take us noon to begin” - how true, we Indian simply can’t function on global time; Indian Standard Time is the only thing that we work by.
Here are some snaps from the on-going GV Summit. (Thanks Jace)
We all have a right to express our views. In many instances; it will be against ours and in some; with us. To hear them out is 'decency' but to let them get to you is 'weakness'. 
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Dec 16th, 2006 at 5:46 am | #
Thanks. At least I know GV 06 has taken off. I was not able to connect to the promised IRC channel and there seemed to be no activity detectable anywhere. Look forward to hearing about it on your blog. Enjoy!
Dec 16th, 2006 at 6:10 am | #
Sunil - Really surprising because from what I have understood IRC channel is working fine and they are answering a lot of questions from IRC participants. Anyways try again.
Dec 16th, 2006 at 8:44 am | #
we’re on the IRC via the web too, via: http://irc.globalvoicesonline.org
And the irc is working good, we’re even having a seperate channel ont he same for transcibers
cheers!
ange
Dec 16th, 2006 at 6:13 pm | #
Heh.. The first person I thought of when I heard that Rakhi was back was you.. I immediately wanted to know your reaction that
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