My First IndiBlogger Meet @ Delhi

Finally I could attend IndiBlogger meet @ Delhi, apart from few facts like "Delhi is 200 miles from my city" and my father asked me not go as this "reading and writing" is not suitable for my age. :) Ofcourse he is worried "Beta faltu ke kaamo mein na pad jaye" :D

I reached Connaught Place before scheduled time of meet, around 12:45 PM after 5 hours of journey and found out that Jantar Mantar is in front of The Park Hotel, where a symbolic strike and a debate on Lokpal was organized by Team Anna. I bought an Anna Topi and get my cheek painted in Tri Color, wandered around Jantar Mantar for some time and then finally reached my destination.

I attracted a lot of bloggers due to my Tri Color tattoo and Anna Topi

The ambiance was mind boggling. I was pretty excited to meet all the faces behind those legendary words, which I read daily. So the blogger meet started with a presentation from HP and then there was 30 seconds introduction by every blogger. There were almost 200 of bloggers.

Before moving on, let me tell you one incident on facebook, after I posted that I'll be attending the IndiBlogger meet:

My Status: "This Sunday @ IndiBlogger Meet at The Park, Connaught Place, New Delhi"

My Friends' Comments:

1: "Sare zeher ka badla liya jaega wahaan is bar"

2: "Free ka khana khane ja rahe ho"

3: "Bahut dasa hai hame ab fasega wahaan jakar"
4: "Dasai ki machine"

[FYI- In my college, there is little low tradition of writing and specially when you talk about Philosophy, it is called "Dasai" as no one is interested in that and from "Dasai" comes the "Zeher"] 

But I was not scared at all as I knew "Mujhse bhi bade dassu aaenge wahaan to :P" [Don't mind :D :)]


Now back to IndiBlogger Meet, after introduction session, which was really enjoying as we get to know about each other, there was a treasure hunt. We needed to scan QR codes and find out the chits with #HPOriginals Tag. Unfortunately our team was sitting on back rows and most of the chits were placed in front rows, so we didn't win out of 5 teams. Doesn't matter.


Now comes the tasty part, High Tea/Coffee :)
Let me enlist the menu :P :P [Many of my friends asked about this :D :D] [My father asked "Kuch diya bhi ya sookha sookha chhod diya"]
Tea/Coffee + Awesomely tasty Cookies
Chholey Bhatoore, Pakodi, Fruit Pastries, Maxican Pudding, Sandwich
Haaaha! I listed all the items, somehow I represented UPwalas here. :D


After that we were provided with a chart and we needed to place them on our back and get comments from fellow bloggers. Yeeeeaaah I got many:

"The philosopher blogger is here, Arvind Rock :)"
"Loved the tattoo and your smile!" 
"Enjoy the life, it rox!"
"Nice meeting an Anna fan blogger."
"Nice coincidence to bump into you, keep posting"
"Sweet, shy - Pleasure to have met you"


And many more :)
And now the final session of debate on "Censorship of Internet" was awesome and it went out the best, it could ever be. 
And after departing, I realized "Yeaah! It was worth traveling 200 miles"


I returned from this meet after learning a lot from other bloggers, specially how to express yourself in your own way without any fear and hesitation. I returned from this meet with a lot of new friends and I hope I'll stay in touch.

Please find the photo album of IndiBlogger's Meet as in following slide show, you can also view these pics in the picasa photo album, mentioned in the slide show.