Warm welcome to SouthAsiaBiz

Welcome to South Asia Biz Blog. Not too many people are interested in starting a new blog in 2026. However, if you go back 20 years to 2006, blogging — or professional blogging — was the buzz topic around the world.

Thousands of people were eager to start a blog; it was like a gold rush. I used to be a blogger back then, and I had a blog with the same name, under the "Know More Media" network.

I've opened this blog because I want to start writing again. Twenty years ago, as a professional blogger, my main target was to reach the first page of Google and use social networking sites like Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon to draw thousands of visitors every week. At that time, Google PageRank was a very important factor for search engine optimization. But things have changed now — Google now favors established websites and news media over small blogs like this one.

Still, I've started this blog not to win any favor from Google like I did 20 years ago, but simply to write about the topics I love. I know I cannot expect many visitors from Google, but I know how to attract readers from Facebook, and even some from LinkedIn — I have some skill in drawing readers through social media. But that isn't my main goal.

What I want most is to write quality content, covering South Asia in my own way. I know that writing about India will cater to a much larger market, but my real interest is in writing quality posts about Nepal and Bhutan. I've noticed that even 20 years ago, there wasn't much content about these two countries, and the situation hasn't changed much even now. That doesn't mean I'll ignore countries like India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh — I will write about them too — but Nepal and Bhutan are my favorites in South Asia.

So what kind of posts can you expect from me? First, quality posts — by quality, I mean evergreen topics that will still be relevant even five years from now. I want to write about business and economy naturally, but also about geographical indications (GI), e-commerce, women's entrepreneurship, and the languages of South Asia.

As I said, I'm not expecting many regular visitors here — I want to write from my heart, and strike a balance between blog writing and academic writing. So this post is both a welcome post and a mission statement.

I know South Asia and its people well. I live in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and I studied English Literature and English Language Teaching at the University of Dhaka, which gives me the added strength to read and write in English confidently.

Right now, I'm not expecting anything from this blog — I see it as a practice pad, a platform for my writing. I wrote about South Asia from 2006 to 2010, and after that I became engaged with the e-commerce industry of Bangladesh — I was the founder president and former president of the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB). I also built several large Facebook communities on different topics, my biggest success being the Search English Facebook Group, with over 3.3 million members.

I feel very happy writing this post, because it feels like stepping back into the past — becoming a blogger again. Perhaps "professional" isn't the right word for my current situation; I should say instead that I've become a serious blogger about South Asia once more.

I'd like to welcome everyone reading this post. Feel free to comment, or share your thoughts on social media. What I don't want is any disrespect — to me or to any reader — in the comments.