It’s still Substack. But under my domain name.
I had lost about a decade of blogging data when the server where my earlier WordPress site was hosted lapsed. I forgot to download and stuff. I kept blaming Subbu for the screwup. It was his server where I had borrowed some space. He decided to wind it up when he shut down his e-comm gift site (dezains).
Around Covid, I started afresh on Revue - the platform that at some point got acquired by Twitter. Twitter then killed the platform. And of course I forgot to download again.
The original Blogspot (2005 to 2007) has always existed though.
Anyway, a few hours ago, asked ChatGPT to put together all my blogs in one place - by looking up at archive.org. And it did. Sure, some images etc are lost but I am sure if I try hard I can manually find them in my hard disks. Will do that at some point. Next Diwali maybe.
For now, I am just happy to have 21 years of writing in one place. And I am quite pleased to note that in these twenty-one years, there has only been one year when I didn’t write / publish even a single blog. Not bad. Or whatever.
Got to spend this Diwali in Deoghar.
Apparently, I was writing about Diwali in Deoghar sixteen years ago too.
Dadi keeps getting older. Papa looks old too. Mummy is not far behind.
Subbu drove all the way from Jaipur. And brought Spider along.
Spider has had a hard time dealing with the cracker noise. In some sense, I am happy Diwali is over.
Spider always reminds biwi and me how small Dona & Paula are. Spider is huge. Like a cow.
Biwi and I dropped Dona & Paula at their usual pet-boarding in Goa. Wonder how their night went by. We will see them tonight when we return to Goa. Or maybe tomorrow if it gets too late today. We will see.
A day (or two) before Diwali, we went to a nearby park (minus mummy and dadi). I wanted to sit at home but biwi was like ‘you need to go out and make memories’. Below are some memories that I made.
Ta (above, with Subbu) is more than two years old now. I still don’t know if she looks more like Subbu or Subbi. ‘Iska apna wajood hai’, I keep telling Subbi.
I need to take more photographs to remind myself how good I am.
Alright, felt good to just get personal after a long time. Maybe reading some of the older blogs helped.
I hope you had a great Diwali too. See you when I see you.