Bhojpuri is loosing its sheen….

……………..before it shined on the net!

It is a long long time that a new Bhojpuri website was added on the web. The last one in my knowledge was the RealBhojpuri.com. After that it has been a long period of silence. Even the Bhojpuri groups are going silent for days altogather.

When I tried to raise the issue of increasing awareness and use of Bhojpuri on the web, many people scoffed and said the situation is not so grim. Bhojpuri is popular on the web and the ranking provided by Alexa is biased in favour of firefox users. But no one cared to point out any other reliable third party source showing increasing popularity of Bhojpuri as a whole.

I dont care about Anjoria or BhojpuriAnjoria because in this universe their existence is not more than a peck of dust! Anjoria.com was started as a childish effort, of course as I have no knowledge of web, at least not of the class room variety. I looked around, asked for technical guidance almost in vain. But, when you desperately look for something you finally get it!

The real turned around came when I found Takhti -a wonderful software, absolutely FREE without any obligation. It helped me to overcome the problem of fonts. Many of the sites are still using images to publish in Devnagri!

Then another blessing came in disguise. I fell into finacial mess, had no job, no family, a few friends and nothing else. To overcome my mental depression I started concentrating on Anjoria. And the effort resulted in positive outcome. Out of the blue a noted Bhojpuri lover Dr.Ashok Dvivedi offered the contents of his famous print magazine "Paatee" to be used on Anjoria. A few writers emerged to help Anjoria with their articles. Thus a major problem of content was solved.

What still gives pain to me, is the lack of visitor participation. Visitors give a damn to whatever is being done. They fail to criticise, admire, appreciate, suggest anything. It results as a one way monologue where you go one speaking without caring what your listners want! I thought it was the non availabilty of Devnagri softwares so I asked them to write in Roman scripts. But hardly anyone cares to give feedback. This dampens the spirit and the tempo dies.

Recently, I am marking the downfall of hitherto popular websites. Even the most popular is gradually loosing its sheen! May I ask why?

Let us accept the fact. Bhojpuri film may be money spinning, Bhojpuri Songs with double meanings may top the charts, but Bhojpuri as a language and Bhojpuri websites are not going to become earning careers. If you love Bhojpuri, you have to go on writting, publishing from your own resources. You cannot make Bhojpuri websites financially viable when there is no popular backing.

As far as Anjoria is concerned, it will go on publishing it as long as it can. It asks only your feedbacks to keep it tuned to its visitors preferences.