BEHOLD THE POWER OF THIS FULLY OPERATIONAL BLOGOSPHERE — in India! Amit Varma reports on a sting operation by Indian bloggers that has cost some parliamentarians their seats. That’s pretty funny. Sepia Mutiny has more.

UPDATE: Reader Ravikiran Rao emails:

Much as we bloggers would like to take credit for this, the blogosphere’s involvement in this is only peripheral. The sting was carried out by a media outfit called Cobrapost (www.cobrapost.com) which you’ll notice, looks a lot like Drudge report. But it is no blog. They aren’t exactly mainstream media either. The best description would be “Internet journalists”. They’ve done gutsy things earlier too when they were running a webzine called Tehelka, when they exposed corruption in defence deals.

The only connection to the blogosphere is that one of the trainees reporters involved in the whole episode is a prominent blogger (Shivam Vij – www.shivamvij.com) and all indications are that the hilarious question planted – one involving blogs -was his idea.

I stand corrected.