sudipta Amitava-da Thank you for your well thought article on Bengali Blog. Your points are well taken. The primary reason why I opened up this site for any of our community members to contribute is because I think that this can serve as a vehicle to express our opinions on our society as well as share any ideas or information that can be used to enrich our lives. We the Bengalees of this area do not have a common platform to express ourselves. There has been some attempt to publish some newsletters and newspapers in print but they have several limits incuding the high cost of producing them. This blog site is not a literary venture you do not have to be an excellent writer to publish your thoughts and opinions. All you need is an opinion. As Charles McAbe once said “Any clod can have the facts but having opinions is an Art.” And I am sure you will agree that Bengalees are never short of opinions. We tend to complain a lot at weekend parties or some social gatherings about how things are not going right how things should be done etc. etc. Why not share them with a broader audience Maybe someone will care and can initiate a chain reaction of changes. Yes we know that we are here to make a living. But I’d like to broaden the scope of the term “living”. Living is not only making money. Living is a process that is much more than making money. The hunter gatherers too drew pictures in the dark cave walls. They wanted to express too express their living experiences. So why not us The internet and the web is our cave walls. Let’s light up the torches of our minds and draw those lines of our lives. Sudipta