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When I began publishing posts on my blog toward the end of 2014 on my son's advice, I, with hesitation, chose fields such as Ancient Indian History, British India History and Indian historical Monuments - temples, churches and mosques, besides UNESCO and Indian Govt. recognized heritage sites. At that point of time, being ignorant as I was, I did not realize that I had gotten into a big ocean trying hard to cross it with a row boat. Having had a cursory glance at various above-mentioned fields I realized what I had written this far was just a drop in the ocean. Please refer to: : http://navrangindia.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
This vast Indian country with a myriad cultures, tradition and languages, and the site of one of ancient civilizations in the world, is dotted across the states with tens of thousands of Hindu temples, Buddha Vihara, palaces, forts, historical buildings built by the European colonists as well by the Indian rulers, etc. Most of them are quite inspiring and intriguing, in particular, those ancient Hindu temples. India's freedom struggle against the British and the latter's atrocities in India form yet another vast field that needs a lot of scrutiny. I an quite aware that for many people history is a boring field about past events and reading it is a tedious one. Many would rather escape from the mind-numbing tedium. That was the reason why I chose only certain unique topics that would be of interest to them.
Incidentally, I do not have many followers of my blog because I do not promote it, further, I am least interested in it. Being a senior citizen my main intention is the readers of this blog should find many topics beneficial to them. I also covered certain general topics relevant to our time . When I was writing on the Hindu temples of TN and elsewhere, I came across many articles in the media on temple mismanagement, misuse of temple funds, of temple lands, loss of invaluable historical metal idols, blatant thefts of them, etc.
This vast Indian country with a myriad cultures, tradition and languages, and the site of one of ancient civilizations in the world, is dotted across the states with tens of thousands of Hindu temples, Buddha Vihara, palaces, forts, historical buildings built by the European colonists as well by the Indian rulers, etc. Most of them are quite inspiring and intriguing, in particular, those ancient Hindu temples. India's freedom struggle against the British and the latter's atrocities in India form yet another vast field that needs a lot of scrutiny. I an quite aware that for many people history is a boring field about past events and reading it is a tedious one. Many would rather escape from the mind-numbing tedium. That was the reason why I chose only certain unique topics that would be of interest to them.
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Incidentally, I do not have many followers of my blog because I do not promote it, further, I am least interested in it. Being a senior citizen my main intention is the readers of this blog should find many topics beneficial to them. I also covered certain general topics relevant to our time . When I was writing on the Hindu temples of TN and elsewhere, I came across many articles in the media on temple mismanagement, misuse of temple funds, of temple lands, loss of invaluable historical metal idols, blatant thefts of them, etc.
Likewise I ran into many media reports on rotting historical monuments across India that needed repair and restoration to benefit the next generation of people. The surprising fact is with some exceptions, public interest about these social and cultural issues related to temple financial mismanagement, poor conditions of many historical monuments and other ills in the society is quite disappointing. Only recently I could see a spike in public interest in these ills in the society. These things made me slowly drift into topics on temple thefts, restoration of dying monuments, etc. Likewise I felt compelled to write environmental issues, health care, healthy living, healthy food, etc. In the future I plan to cover interesting and useful topics within the purview of various fields related to heritage sites, monuments, etc., as mentioned above.
Some inadvertent typographical errors, etc., may appear in some posts and part of the reason is I do not spend much time on editing in view of my losing patience. I do apologize for such errors and I will try to correct them as much as possible. As for paragraph spacing, posting images, font sizes, major heading or categories etc., I do have problem with the present format and I find it difficult to correct them. Likewise on many occasions I do have problem with spell check. My son who is a computer engineer and a start-up entrepreneur told me that the ''blog format'' had to be changed soon as it was impossible to correct certain paragraph alignments, errors in the categories, etc.
I have been receiving positive comments from readers and I very much regret my inability to respond to their e-mail. Anyway, I would like to thank them for their comments and interest in this blog.
Some inadvertent typographical errors, etc., may appear in some posts and part of the reason is I do not spend much time on editing in view of my losing patience. I do apologize for such errors and I will try to correct them as much as possible. As for paragraph spacing, posting images, font sizes, major heading or categories etc., I do have problem with the present format and I find it difficult to correct them. Likewise on many occasions I do have problem with spell check. My son who is a computer engineer and a start-up entrepreneur told me that the ''blog format'' had to be changed soon as it was impossible to correct certain paragraph alignments, errors in the categories, etc.
I have been receiving positive comments from readers and I very much regret my inability to respond to their e-mail. Anyway, I would like to thank them for their comments and interest in this blog.
Since March 2021, I have not posted anything and the last one was reposted from the old one as I found it difficult to make certain corrections with respect to images, etc. Hence it was reposted. I plan to be active in the future whenever it is possible. Thank you ..... ...................................
K. N. Jayaraman
2, August, 2021
