Ghumakkad's blog-- your own blog-- completes five years on 25th May 2017. It is each one of you who has helped us sustain this exciting journey. A journey of exploration, adventure, thrill and discovery. When we started off, we never knew we would reach out to so many netizens. With just 234 page views in first 12 months in 2012-13, your blog has now crossed 92,500 page views.
It took three years when 'Ghumakkad crossed 25,000 mark'.
But it took just one more year to reach the 50,000 milestone. And the next 42,5000 page views came in this year taking the count to 92,500! Credit for achieving this landmark goes to each of you.
Numbers don't matter. What gives us a kick is when someone travels all the way to Port Blair or Africa based on our picture stories and gives us a pat on our back! We feel humbled in adding happiness to your lives.
Over last five years, you have liked and appreciated more than 6000 photographs in this blog taken around the world--spread over 230 posts with 30 embedded videos.
Of course, the journey continues. As we said earlier, 92K page views in cyber world is no big deal. But for a non-commercial, non-political, non-religious and non-celebrity blog it means a lot. It is truly a humbling experience for me.
Credits: Many readers have given regular feedback to enrich the blog. Please allow Ghumakkad to mention few regular readers (please pardon us for omissions if any!):
Credits are also due to: CD Sawant, RRN Chowdary, Deepti Thakur, A Mohandas, LV Mohandas, S Santhanam, AVS Madhav Rao, Sangeeta Agarwal, V Ramachandran, Chaitanya Shiroor, Vijay Bal, Umesh Kumar and the entire Bhargava clan spread around the world.
Time for a quick recap. Our first story five years ago was titled 'Exploring Bhutan Part-1: The Team'.
We started off as a travelogue. Change is part of our life and soon other subjects got added. The flavour of the blog has thus changed. We invite you to sample some of the stories spanning various aspects of our life. You may click to browse any of the posts hyper-linked in parenthesis:
But it took just one more year to reach the 50,000 milestone. And the next 42,5000 page views came in this year taking the count to 92,500! Credit for achieving this landmark goes to each of you.
Numbers don't matter. What gives us a kick is when someone travels all the way to Port Blair or Africa based on our picture stories and gives us a pat on our back! We feel humbled in adding happiness to your lives.
Over last five years, you have liked and appreciated more than 6000 photographs in this blog taken around the world--spread over 230 posts with 30 embedded videos.
Of course, the journey continues. As we said earlier, 92K page views in cyber world is no big deal. But for a non-commercial, non-political, non-religious and non-celebrity blog it means a lot. It is truly a humbling experience for me.
Credits: Many readers have given regular feedback to enrich the blog. Please allow Ghumakkad to mention few regular readers (please pardon us for omissions if any!):
(Late)Manorama Bhargava
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PSP Sarma (Octogenarian)
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Trixie Asirvatham
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BD Bhargava(Octogenarian)
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N Sridhar
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Pramod-Helga Lakhotia
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Umesh Dhyani
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Pramila and Mani Thomas
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Rajendra Singh
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Sunil Sud
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M Sitaram
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Manasi Panigrahi
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Aditya Jain
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R Raghuram
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MV Vasudevan
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Suchitra Chowdhury
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Raj K Mehta
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Vinod Dhanuka
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Avinash Tiwari
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Supradeep Sen
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Pradeep Mohan
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Ashok Kota
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Masthanaiah Aluru
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Arun Dhupar
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A Ramnath
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Rani PAR Kumar
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TJ Master
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BU Vuppala
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Lakshmi and NR Ravi
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RB Dhavare
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Vinay Prasad
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PG Bhat
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K Gopu
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M Ramesh
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Anand and Farida Jain
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Kirti Sharma
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JA Rama Moorty
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Kingshuk Nag
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Brijesh Kalra
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GR Nair
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Swati-Swayam Mishra
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Vasu Iyer
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BK Nagaraj
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Pradeep Siwach
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C Raghuram and many more
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Credits are also due to: CD Sawant, RRN Chowdary, Deepti Thakur, A Mohandas, LV Mohandas, S Santhanam, AVS Madhav Rao, Sangeeta Agarwal, V Ramachandran, Chaitanya Shiroor, Vijay Bal, Umesh Kumar and the entire Bhargava clan spread around the world.
Time for a quick recap. Our first story five years ago was titled 'Exploring Bhutan Part-1: The Team'.
We started off as a travelogue. Change is part of our life and soon other subjects got added. The flavour of the blog has thus changed. We invite you to sample some of the stories spanning various aspects of our life. You may click to browse any of the posts hyper-linked in parenthesis:
- Travel (Bhutan-Thimpu and beyond, Munnar-Kerala, What's new in Goa, Changing face of Jaipur, USA-Casinos, USA-Camping)
- Environment (Port Blair Flora and fauna, Friendly Munias, Rescuing an injured Bat, Learning from Caterpillars)
- Learning and teaching (Plants and Leadership, Bringing realism in the classroom, Social Entrepreneurship, Learning from students, Life beyond an ECG)
- Picturesque Quotes (PQs) (Rose petals and Life, Nature, Darkness, Patience)
- Obituaries (Dr Abdul Kalam, Kushwant Singh, Elfo our dog)
- Books by Ghumakkad (BITS of Success)
- Reunions (Navy, College-BITS, Campus BITS Goa)
- Fitness (Yoga and life partner, Grandpa's Gym, Why Golf, Hiking, Scuba Diving at 65)
You can also search within the blog for any topic of your interest.
Once again we would like to thank each one of you for your continued support and encouragement. Ghumakkad hopes to bring you more pictures, more stories and more insights into our life.
Hope you enjoy the blog as much as we do creating the stories for you.
Thanks for browsing and being part of our exciting journey.
- Harsh-the-Ghumakkad with Neeta Bhargava/ 25th May 2017/ hbindia@gmail.com
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