Comments on: Looking Back, Moving On: Final Thoughts from Amardeep

By: Pravin

Pravin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:31:40 +0000

Never mind. I just checked out Abhi's post. OK, now I know there was already a blog posting about the closure.

I provided links in my other reply which probably made it subject to moderation. So I will say it again. SepiaMutiny, for all its greatness, did not deliver one thing - the identity of Kerpal, the character of one of the greatest Indian American or Indo Canadian pranks ever. Heh heh.

By: Pravin

Pravin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:45:28 +0000

Woah, I read thjis blog post earlier, but I had no idea it was about SM ending. I thought it was Amardeep saying goodbye as a contributor. I did not see anything about SM itself ending. I thought he was talking about what the experience meant to him.

I gotta thank the site for getting me in touch with some Indian issues. I am a cross betweeen a 1.5 and 2nd generation Indian American. Born in the US, but spent my middle part of my schooling in India due to a family situation. The site had something for everyone though I do think the site can indulge in too many book reading club like boutique literature.

I think you had a good diversity of writers. What I dont understand is why the site is ending. Is it really that expensive to maintain a blog? Why not have a rotating roster of writers as we are used to having?

By: Floridian

Floridian — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:52:01 +0000

Is there nothing sacred? Even though I had stopped commenting on SM years ago, I still drew comfort from the fact that this old flame of mine was still around, and now meant something to somebody else. No more. What a slap in the face as I visited SM this morning after years of absence, just for old time's sake, and there was Amardeep delivering the sad news.

What caused the demise of a blog that attracted thousands of people a day, went from the sublime to ridiculous and then back to sublime like a yo-yo all day long, attracted commenters who could discuss with authority anything from history and art to the proper way to wipe one's butt (yes, there was a post on that)? Many times it didn't even matter that SM was a South Asian American blog. It was just a damn fine blog - intelligent, witty, funny, informative. I personally got a hundred times more out of it than what I put in.

The blog did not wither away because the issues facing South Asian Americans had become irrelevant. Remember the pronouncement of the head of the US patent office in the late 19th century? "Everything that could be invented has already been invented." The issues are still alive. But the magic was gone.

Here is a very important question for the Mutineers. Will the archives be still accessible if one wanted to read some posts and comments because they are certainly worth revisiting? In other words, will the soul be still alive after the body has been cremated, or buried?

By: Spigot

Spigot — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:32:44 +0000

I could not agree more. This is really why I started loosing interest in this site. Just about any opposing reaction was deemed as Trollish.

By: Linkage « An Ergodic Walk

Linkage « An Ergodic Walk — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:52:08 +0000

[...] Sepia Mutiny is shutting down, and Amardeep has some closing thoughts. [...]

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 06:55:42 +0000

Adarmeep,

Your website has so many interesting articles. I'm fascinated by all the exotic traditions of India. I do hope you'll re-organize the website so that the restaurant reviews are easier to find.

Thanks!!!

By: Boston_Mahesh

Boston_Mahesh — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:49:36 +0000

from my perspective, i hate hate hate having to type in these crappy "captchas". I miss the old days where all we had to do was type in the world's most empowering word - "brown". if you get the captcha wrong, then your post is lost into thin air.

captchas is a ploy by the Man to subjugate us browns.

By: Obnoxious

Obnoxious — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:32:59 +0000

But really April Fool’s Day?

By: Obnoxious

Obnoxious — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:28:50 +0000

More than fresh blood they just needed to be “unanalled” I guess. From when it was ok to be pissed off at someones blog, post or comment and respond to it, however crudely, I think the undoing for this site was the censorship they brought in on topics the owners or moderators thought was crazy shit. They forgot that the number of readers and commentators they had was because everybody had different or even outright crazy views on everything (opinions against the bloggers maybe?) and wanted to share them. If there are no crazy opinions to counter, then really is there anything to even argue against? It was once they started banning people or deleting posts that commentators or users stopped responding and paying attention to the posts and ultimately to this whole community of sepia mutiny. The ONLY things to survive on the net are where freedom of expression exist, sepia mutiny will go down as one of the places which once encouraged it but once it got too big tried to control it (the same way 4chan/b/ is going). But I really feel that the owners just got too old and did not represent the voice form let us say what they did five years ago. And it sucks that twitter and facebook don’t allow obnoxious anonymous commentators like us function with commenting on shit.

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:58:19 +0000

I’ll say it again…all you guys need is fresh blood. Don’t let SM die!