A brief Histroy of Bangla Blogging...At the very begining (2)

From the very begining there were several attempts from the fundamentalists to take control over the front page, interpreting history of Bangladesh with their unhistoric approaches which were naturally full of lies, to construct a different image for the ongrowing IT generation and for the Bangla blogsphere about the liberation war of Bangladesh'1971 and religious fundamentalism as well. There were also some people, claiming themselves as real free thinkers, who refuse to call anyone or simply use the word Rajakar, for the sake of their postmodern view. As reactions came very strong protests from Bangladeshi bloggers with pro-liberation and anti-fundamentalist view. At that time there were hard debates on political and cultural histry, religion, philosophy and above all freedom of speech. Among these themes, pro & contra-liberation servived as the key divider of the polaraization. However, after first two months the first ever Bangla Blog community had been parted into two major groups. The conflict was often hard enough to make bloggers thinking about alternative internet platforms. Naturally the pro-liberation group was stronger and within the end of March 2006 they managed to create an atmosphere for creative and informative writings.

I consider, as an active observer of the history, April and May 2006 was the golden hours of Bangla Blogging.

(to be continued)