All future updates for this blog will be done at varnam.org which was the original home of this blog. See you there.
Archive | Blogs RSS feed for this section
Six ways to follow varnam
If you have been following this blog regularly by visiting this website, you may not know that there other ways of following varnam using various social networks. Here are few ways by which you can follow the blog
- By e-mail. This link takes you to Feedburner which manages the e-mail subscription. Every time a post is made, you get the contents via mail.
- If you use Feedly, this link will take you to the page to add the feed.
- If you use any other RSS reader, this is the feed link
- If you are a Facebook user, here is the page to follow
- If you are a Google+ user, here is the profile page
- Finally, here is the twitter feed.
You can find the widgets for all these subscriptions on the sidebar under “Subscribe”. Please connect and share the posts.
10 Years of Blogging
(flickr:surya kiran)
Today I complete a decade of blogging. Here is the first post which started it all. Actually I used to have a blog on Blogger or some such entity before that in the final months of 2002, but can’t find any trace of it. So this is the start date.
When I started blogging, I tried to write about everything and that did not go well. Over the years I narrowed it down to history because that is what I am passionate about. Also that is an area on which bloggers are not spending much attention. There are few areas which I have been writing about: the Indus-Saraswati civilization, the Aryan-Dravidian problem, the arrival of Europeans to India and the Anglo-Indian war of 1857. Also over the past few years, I started reading more World History and have been trying to understand Indian history in the global context. But since this is a one man effort, many important areas of history have been left out.
Also, when I started blogging, there was no Facebook or Twitter and hence life was without much distraction. Besides these, many new tools capable of sharing cat videos will appear over the years, but since I come from the era of Krishidarshan and Buniyaad, I am resistant to change. I think I will be around blogging for the next decade as well.
PS: The Indian History Carnival completed 5 years of its existence few months back.
Comment Spam
This blog has been hit by the RSS Comment Spam. Due to this you will notice advertisments for medical products and maybe text books by Marxist historians in the feed. The RSS Spam division of INI has been notified and it should be resolved soon.
Happy New Year
That’s the partial reading list for the first quarter.The Malayalam book is Marthandavarma, written in 1891 by C V Raman Pillai and the little green book at the top is The Travels of Sir John Mandeville & The Journal of Friar Odoric. Sometime after 1321, Friar Odoric, an Italian, spent time in Malabar, Cranganore, Kollam, and Chennai.
For 2009, this blog has a new WordPress theme. varnam is now on twitter as well.
Subscribe
About The Author
This blog is written by Jayakrishnan. I am not a historian, but a history enthusiast. I am not an insider and so I am not bound by the politics and preconceptions in the field. I spend lot of time reading about the topics I write about and most of the information comes from books or papers. I also run a history carnival in the 15th of every month. You can contact me at varnam.blog @gmail or @varnam_blog on Twitter Unless mentioned otherwise, all images are from Wikipedia
Recent Comments