Mahesh Santaram is hosting the 'Bharatiya Blog Mela', a rich showcase of Indian bloggers. I was very pleasantly surprised by both the presentation (the design is a spoof on Indian Express) and the content.

Lately, there has been a bunch of interesting new blogs and zines from the Indian community

Om Malik, a journalist with Business 2.0 and the writer of Broadbandits: Inside the $70 million telecom heist has started an interesting new weblog called 'Not really Indian' . It seems to cover Indo American cultural kitsch and what he calls 'un NRI like things'.

I also noticed another interesting weblog called Prayatna on Typepad (via Emergic).

Former NDTV producer and anchor, Smita Maitra and Amrita Ghosh, English lecturer/PhD candidate in Drew University are starting a new Indian literary webzine called 'Cerebration'. It is currently hosted on Geocities which is rather fragile. It is moving to this location. They are also looking for interesting submissions.

Dialognow, Satya Circle and Mantram have already on the map for some time now and have acquired quite a bit of traction among those looking for news and views from the Indian community on the net.