Why Does Amitabh Bachchan Write Blogs?
Why do we write blogs? Is it to kill time? Is it to express ourselves? Is it to extricate the negative energy and the stress that builds up in us? Or as Freud would have propounded, is it due to an innate need for mankind to be "famous"; to feel important, albeit in a territory completely controlled and some times read only by us? I had lived by these explanations till I heard that Amitabh Bachchan had started writing blogs. I had initially thought it was to discuss his art (whatever is left of it) undistilled from the press that he seems to loathe so much. But even a cursory reading of his blogs will tell you that the reason is simply not that. Amitabh, between busy schedules, globe trotting, dancing and prancing, attending "meet & greet" sessions, and at times face laden with "kilos of beard and make-up", finds time to bicker about the press, about diminishing values in society, about what his dad taught him (there is an awful lot of that); he