Including us, very many internet hindoos run blogs, many of them wonderful (not including this blog obviously), use pseudonyms/anonymous ids. There are several views of their anonymity, and liberals have colorful readings into it, right from the cowardice of internet yindoos to ease of abusing big names while hiding their own identities.
This brief note is hardly an attempt to justify anonymity: evidently each one has his reasons to remain anonymous and definitely the right to do so at one’s own discretion. On the contrary we (the ones running this blog, not all internet yindoos) seek to spell out our perspective of it: as to why we decide to be anonymous. In the current public discourse what is available is predominantly a liberal comment of bhAratIyata and not a bhAratIya view or participant view of things. Most phenomena are seen through the western liberal lens and evaluated. We attempt one of the participant perspectives.
Just anonymous, not abusive
The liberal allegation of scope for abuse falls flat when one looks at some anonymous IH blogs: http://manasataramgini.wordpress.com http://bharatendu.com/ http://arisebharat.com http://amatyarakshasa.blogspot.in/ http://vajrin.wordpress.com/ to mention a few they are hardly abusive but erudite informative and enlightening. They are anonymous nevertheless, and must be so, hence, for other reasons.
Protect self from abuse
The abuse received by some of the bloggers makes them go anonymous, some moderate and some even block comments. But even that, explains only a part of it. One can obviously enforce moderation without being anonymous.
Some do, seek to remain anonymous to avoid attacks: the environment is overwhelmingly anti-Hindu physical assault/ character assassination is something the likes of Kanchi Swamy and Asaram Bapu could not avoid at the hands of vested interests within Bharata. In which case, those seeking to educate people obviously prefer anonymity as it is the content and not personal glory that they want.
Impersonal
Another, more (or most) important reason: most of the IH content is impersonal, just like bhAratIya knowledge. Very little content in these blogs have personal narratives, most of the content is conceptual. Unlike many non-anonymous bloggers who post abundantly personal narratives.
What is the need to hide personal identity just because what you write is impersonal in nature? That again, is the bhAratIya view: person does not come in impersonal narrative, and even if he does, there is a passive norm for it. So Mahabharata written by Vyasa refers several times to Vyasa but never in first person. The Hindu view of writing content is a primary reason for the impersonal nature of many of the blogs and twitter handles.
Non-participant
Hindu society has abundant knowledge and hence scholarship, though persecuted for centuries. The ones participating in public movements or university/interactive scholarship usually run their blogs without being anonymous. The anonymous ones are the ones studying/educating outside their mainline careers.
Groups
Some of the blogs and twitter handles do not belong to individuals but groups. It is not anonymity in this case: the authors are well known. Some are individuals that blog ideas that are not entirely their own but try to bring them to fore without taking credit or exposing the sources. This again, in departure from the patent world of monetized knowledge, is in consonance with bhAratIya thinking.
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