Desicritics launched just over six months ago with 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. Do political, social, religious, ethnic boundaries matter online? Could we bring together the very best writers, bloggers, critics and provide them a forum to articulate their views about the new post-post-colonial world, a transnational, opportunity-rich space?

The results have been more than promising - we've grown from an initial cabal of 75+ of the best writers and bloggers in the desi blogosphere to over 300 Desicritics, covered everything from nuclear deals to macaca-gate, from Bugti to Boston, and men's rights to reservation rights. We've published close to 3000 articles, 18000+ comments, and have a regular readership that grows constantly. We've had about 300,000 visitors and 1.3 million hits since we launched in January.

Desicritics.org is part of the Blogcritics.org family of sites, which has more than 100,000 daily visitors, and 1500+ writers, and which covers all aspects of contemporary culture and society. Our global reach enables views and opinions to be disseminated across the online macrocosm. The articles from our excellent writers are only the beginning. Readers and commenters chime in to create an ongoing unrestricted dialogue that often goes beyond the original dimensions of the article.

Our articles are syndicated by numerous news aggregator sites and online magazines such as Indianpad.com, bharat1.com, Topix, and mytoday.com. The exponentially higher visibility for their articles than they could achieve from their personal blog or website as well as the opportunity to be a part of a global interactive community, attracts bloggers and writers to Desicritics. It also benefits writers to work with our editors to take their writing skills to 'the next level'.

We work with publishers and media agents to review music, books, films, and events. To have your material reviewed or critiqued, send us an email.

The Desicritics Team

Publisher: Aaman Lamba

Aaman Lamba has been a writer for longer than he can remember. He cares passionately about making the world a more liveable and lovable place, without borders or divisive attitudes. Desicritics is the fulfilment, in part, of his mission to facilitate dialogue and communication, as well as to fathom the intersection of the real and virtual worlds. He works in the technology industry, reads at least four books a week, and can't do it without his guiding light, Deepti.

Uber-Blogfather: Eric Olsen

Over a 20-year writing, editing, and media career, Blogcritics.org Founder and Publisher Eric Olsen has written in depth on a vast array of topics including politics, current events, world affairs, popular culture, music, music industry, digital technology, opinion and commentary, etc., for periodicals, books, TV, radio, and the Internet. As an editor and author, he oversaw the compilation and publication of Networking In the Music Industry (Rockpress, 1993) and Encyclopedia of Record Producers (Billboard Books, 1999). In 2002, Olsen founded online magazine Blogcritics.org, the sinister cabal of superior bloggers. His inspiration and guidance make Desicritics what it is, and have laid the foundation for what it is becoming.