The Defunct Chowk.com; what Chowk.com was all about

I was asked what Chowk.com was about when it was operational.   Chowk.com had three founders: Safwan Shan, Umair Khan, and Ginni Dhindsa.  When Chowk started, the Internet was a novelty.  Chowk.com provided an online space for Indians and Pakistanis to find out about each other and learn what the 'enemy' was thinking.  Several people started their writing careers at Chowk.com.  It was magical to see your article published at Chowk and then to see its 'views' growing in numbers, and on top of that you got to 'Inter-act' with your readers who cared to comment on your writing.  It was all very new and very refreshing, a huge departure from the days of hard-copy publications.  Why Chowk.com wrapped up its operation?  Chowk.com did not have a revenue model.  Very early, Umair Khan left.  For several years the duo of Safwan Shah and Ginni Dhindsa successfully ran Chowk.com but then Safwan Shah got busy with money-making ventures, and it was too much work for Ginni to handle the humongous flow of articles coming to Chowk.com.  When Chowk.com ceased operation, it went down with hundreds of thousands of remarkable articles, and millions of useful and educational comments from the readers.
But Chowk.com has made history.  Chowk will always be remembered as one of the first South Asian websites that let Indians and Pakistanis interact with each other, visa free.