Desicritics[1] is a news site devoted to exploring the world from the perspective of "desis". Desi (pronounced /dhey-see/ or /dhey-shee/, and alternatively spelled Deshi), is a subculture found amongst the South Asian diaspora. ...

The site was launched on January 26, 2006 by Aaman Lamba, who previously worked with Eric Olsen on Blogcritics. Aaman Lamba and his wife Deepti Lamba co-own the site. Blogcritics is a popular news and opinion blog founded in 2002 by Eric Olsen and Phillip Winn. ...

The site features articles from over 300 bloggers from around the world that cover a wide range of topics, from the macaca scandal to the assassination of Pakistani tribal chieftain Bugti. Desicritics covers news in the areas of culture, politics, business, sports, media and technology among others. The site also features fiction from up and coming authors. Species see text The macaques form the genus Macaca of Old World monkeys. ... Bugti (Urdu: بگٹی), is a Baloch tribe located in Balochistan, Pakistan. ...

Desicritics brings together high quality news, opinions, and reviews across a wide variety of fronts and the funky, eclectic, personality-driven spirit of the blogosphere all in one package. Desicritics is about South Asia, including about what South Asians think about no matter what topic, as well as non-desis' views on global topics. Desicritics has 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. Blogosphere is the collective term encompassing all blogs as a community or social network. ... Map of South Asia (see note on Kashmir) South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is a southern geopolitical region of the Asian continent comprising territories on and in proximity to the Indian subcontinent. ...

Desicritics articles are syndicated by numerous news aggregator sites and online magazines including Topix, Indianpad and mytoday.com. Desicritics.org also serves as an official news source for Google. Desicritics is representative of the next generation of media and citizen journalism. An aggregator or news aggregator is a type of software that retrieves syndicated Web content that is supplied in the form of a web feed (RSS, Atom and other XML formats), and that are published by weblogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites. ... Topix, along with Nikkei 225, is a major index for the Tokyo stock exchange in Japan, tracking 1645 companies. ... IndianPad is a social bookmarking and blogging website. ... Google, Inc. ...

The South Asian Blogosphere has been burgeoning of late, growing by leaps and bounds, and providing new channels of communication between social groups, and building global interactive communities that cross socio-political boundaries in a manner unusual in the South Asian polity.

Desicritics Team

• Publisher: Aaman Lamba
• Executive Editor: Sujatha Bagal
• Uber-Blogfather: Eric Olsen
• Executive Producer: Eric Berlin
• Technical Director: Phillip Winn
• Senior Editors: Deepti Lamba, temporal, Kishore Gopalan, Nandhu
• Other Editors: Sakshi Juneja, Huzaifa Das, ShoeFiend, Lavanya (DesiGirl)
• Legal Issues: Justene Adamec

Desicritics.org Aacool 18:46, 24 October 2006 (UTC)