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Namaste everyone,
First of all, a very happy Tihar.
Now something on the issue at hand.
I don't consider myself a good writer and was quite surprised to see my name along with ashu, Sitara and other good writers from whom/whose posts I have learned a lot. Sajha for many years served as a platform for us, young writers to share, discuss, debate, argue, make friends.. and I have learned a lot, made many friends and even more enemies here.
I can't speak for all but these days I find myself pretty occupied with myself, I guess I am getting old. And when you are of my age, you are more concerned with yourself rather than what happens in the world. I hope this is just a temporary phase, and maybe the old posters are also going through this phase, and sooner or later (sooner than later) they all will be back sharing their stories, anecdotes, poems and well-written, well-argued essays. Let me take this opportunity to invite all the oldies back: Ashu, Sitara, NK, Poonte, Suna, Arnico, Kalankisthan, Suvachintak, GP, Captain Haddock, Jira, Deep, Sum_off.
Again, I can't speak for all, but my not writing here has nothing to do with the way San runs this website. He has provided this excellent platform for us to share our views and make like-minded friends. The problem is with us, the ones who disappeared for various reasons. I guess, we all get used to a set of writers and when we see that our favorite writers or the ones we feel comfortable with are no longer writing, the will to write, discuss just fades away. I know its quite unfair to new posters because eight years ago, I was new to Sajha, and many good writers/posters then encouraged me, argued/discussed with me, and as a result got me hooked to Sajha.. I am not saying all these new, young and brilliant writers need our guidance or sort, on the contrary, we can learn a thing or two from these new posters, but the problem is, we are afraid to get out of our comfort zone and are quite ready to embrace the new writers. But let's be optimists. The old writers will be back and the new ones will be able to learn from them and vice-versa. Being a life-long student of