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It is just over 2 months since I stepped into the blogging world through Sulekha. Before explaining how much I love this blogging world, I would like to share the awareness I had on blogging before joining Sulekha. I heard the word blogging, but was just thinking that it is something similar to chat messengers and nothing more. I always had an interest to write, but to become a regular professional writer, it takes huge effort. With my responsibilities in my current job I cannot dream of getting into professional writing. I am also not keen on leaving the profession that I am happy with and that too into unexplored and unknown horizons. Blogging was something my wife had suggested me as an alternative. I tried with some blog sites and gave up within a few days. I did not enjoy it much. Finally it was my wife herself who gave me a suggestion to get into Sulekha which looks lot different from the other blog sites that I visited earlier. Once I entered the Sulekha world, there was no going back. The urge to share my knowledge and ideas to my fellow bloggers kept on increasing and I have posted so many blogs on varied subjects during the last 2 months. I have made many online friends and networked with many others through comments. I have interacted a lot through the notes facility as well to share ideas and opinions. Suddenly I am surprised to find that I have been with Sulekha only for the last 2 months. Did I contribute so much within 2 months? That's why I just love Sulekha. It was the life in Sulekha that made me express so much in so little a time. I can call it a love affair as well if my wife does not feel offended by such usage. No, she will not get offended because it was she who made me enter into this new exciting world of blogging.

Interestingly I became more productive even at work after getting into blogging. I am able to forget all the stress at work once I get into blogging in the evening, I was driven more by the urge to write blogs and share my opinions on other blogs. In addition to creating an urge inside me to write, the blogs posted by many others in Sulekha are like oceans of knowledge to learn further. I enjoyed reading the blogs of many others on Sulekha. However I feel jealous of people who write good poems. I tried writing poems a couple of times, but I realised that it was not my cup of tea. But I keep reading the poems that are published on Sulekha. Some of them are too good!!

During the last two months, I have posted blogs on the subjects that can be classified into the following categories. I have provided links to all these blogs at the end of this blog.

1. Valuable information and analysis on important and burning issues

2. Political and sociological opinions and predictions on future

3. Critical opinions

4. Stories/Conversations to drive home some key points

5. Religion

6. Cricket

7. Miscellaneous

But my most favourite blog is "Indians are all same irrespective of diversity". The reason was that I believe in cultural unity among Indians and I dream of a strong India without any internal differences. One more reason behind me liking this blog was that it was the first among the 5 of my blogs that have been featured so far on Sulekha. That blog getting featured acted as a catalyst for more and more contributions on Sulekha. But I am no more bothered about getting featured. Getting featured for a few times so far has given me enough motivation to continue. I am enjoying the blogging life and will continue to contribute. Some one recently asked me why I chose to create an identity called "Great Thinker". I really did not have a proper answer as the question came to me like a bolt from the blue. Of course I am no Einstein or Aristotle. I decided to give that name suddenly in a split of a second looking at many other online identities that have attractive names and later when the question came, I felt a little embarrassed in conferring myself with such a title. I made an attempt to change it, but Sulekha does not give an edit option. However later I reconciled myself with the identity called GreatThinker. This identity has worked very well for me and wrote so many blogs and made many friends with this identity and thought it better not to change it. Hence I will remain as GreatThinker on Sulekha.

I would like to tell my fellow bloggers and friends on the network that I tried to be different in the way I write. In the blogs that I wrote to share information on certain political or religious topics, I tried to make people understand the gist of the blog just through a few words or paragraphs of important information and through a brief analysis. The reason behind such an attempt was my own difficulty many times on the internet in finding important information on a topic at one place. I had to read volumes to get small information about certain key issues and that's why I approached it differently. Where ever my blogs are large, it was only because I could not make those precise. I felt that I will not be able to drive home my point by cutting the size of such blogs. However the number of large blogs is less in my blog pages. Trust me; you will get the information that you wanted to know on certain known issues at one place by reading very less content through my blogs. The best examples are Kashmir issue, Subhash Chandra Bose’s disappearance, Aryan-Dravidian politics, Naxal problem, Israel-Palestine issue, History of the caste system etc. But there are many more such blogs and I will be writing more and more on varied topics in the days to come.

Before ending this note, my request to fellow bloggers is that I am interested to network with more and more people. I love to increase my friends network on Sulekha. Also, I am open to receiving any sort of comments on my writings. My understanding is that holding differences in opinion on certain topics is not criticism of an individual. It will help people to judge the other side of the coin as well and know better.

Finally, thanks to all the friends and fellow bloggers on Sulekha for active participation in discussions with me and for commenting my blogs and of course to the owners of the Sulekha site for making it happen. It was the fellow bloggers who made difference to my blogging life. I hope to interact with more and more people in the coming days. I welcome all those who are not part of my network to join it. Let us all enjoy the blogging world together and take it to new heights!!

Following are the links to my blogs in an order of my choice. My favorites in each section come first. You may read the blogs related to your interests and give your comments.

VALUABLE INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS ON IMPORTANT AND BURNING ISSUES

1. Mystery behind Subhash Chandra Bose's disappearance

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/mystery-behind-subhash-chandra-bose-s-disappearance.htm

2. Bengal - the gateway to a major disaster for India

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/bengal-the-gateway-to-a-major-disaster-for-india.htm

3. General perception on the caste system and its true history

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/understanding-the-history-of-the-caste-system.htm

4. Dirty coalitions and the disaster ahead - Karnataka is just a beginning

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/dirty-coalitions-and-the-disaster-ahead-karnataka.htm

5. Kashmir problem - Bloody politics by Britain and blunder by Nehru

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/kashmir-problem-bloody-politics-by-britain-and-blunder.htm

6. Dravidian politics has no sense of logic and it is time for change

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/dravidian-politics-has-no-sense-of-logic-and-it-is.htm

7. India's National Language

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/india-s-national-language.htm

8. Beware!! Naxals will knock your door soon!

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/beware-naxals-will-knock-your-door-soon.htm

9. The Jews, Israel and the Palestine issue (2000 BC to 2007 AD)

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/the-jews-israel-and-the-palestine-issue-2000-bc.htm

10. Nehru Gandhi dynasty - How does it survive?

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/nehru-gandhi-dynasty-what-makes-it-so-powerful.htm

11. What is nuclear football?

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/what-is-nuclear-football.htm

POLITICAL/SOCIOLOGICAL OPINIONS AND PREDICTIONS ON FUTURE

1. Indians are all same irrespective of diversity

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/indians-are-all-same-irrespective-of-diversity.htm

2. Guidelines for Indian citizens to make INDIA stronger

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/guidelines-for-indian-citizens-to-make-india-stronger.htm

3. The future world with humans spread across multiple planets

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/the-future-world-with-humans-spread-across-multiple.htm

4. Emerging War Scenario involving India

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/emerging-war-scenario-involving-india.htm

5. India and the world in 2050 - Sorry, it is not fiction!!

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/india-and-the-world-in-2050-sorry-it-is-not-fiction.htm

6. Terrorists after 20 years

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/terrorists-after-20-years.htm

7. Why the marriage institution may collapse

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/why-the-marriage-institution-may-collapse.htm

8. Third World War – a reality!

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/third-world-war-a-reality.htm

9. A perfect world – Is it a dream forever?

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/a-perfect-world-is-it-a-dream-forever-2.htm

10. Communism – Morally good, practically impossible

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/communism-morally-good-practically-impossible.htm

11. Doing your job seriously is social service

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/doing-your-job-seriously-is-social-service.htm

12. Rulers of nations - the bigger victims?

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/rulers-of-nations-the-bigger-victims.htm

13. The ethnics who will rule the future

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/the-ethnics-who-will-rule-the-future.htm

14. Indirect Economic Crime - Most of us commit it

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/indirect-economic-crime-most-of-us-commit-it.htm

15. Morally no one owns land and natural resources

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/morally-no-one-owns-land-and-natural-resources.htm

16. Democratic set up of Governments and inherent loopholes

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/democratic-set-up-of-governments-and-inherent-loopholes-2.htm

17. Access to basic information should be fundamental right

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/access-to-basic-information-should-be-fundamental.htm

18. Journalists' life - The other side

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/journalists-life-the-other-side.htm

19. Importance of logic and rational thinking in India

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/importance-of-logic-and-rational-thinking-in-india.htm

CRITICAL WRITE UPS AND OPINIONS

1. Is there caste bias in private sector? I strongly disagree.

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/is-there-caste-bias-in-private-sector-i-strongly.htm

2. NO BACHELORS PLEASE!!

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/no-bachelors-please.htm

3. False status symbols

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/false-status-symbols.htm

4. Poor Taslima!! What was her mistake?

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/poor-taslima-what-was-her-mistake.htm

5. Is Nandigram massacre different from Jallianwala Bagh massacre?

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/is-nandigram-massacre-different-from-jallianwala-bagh.htm

6. Callous attitude of Air India Management

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/callous-attitude-of-air-india-management.htm

7. IS THERE GOD IN TIRUPATHI??

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/is-there-god-in-tirupathi.htm

8. Humans and their double standards

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/humans-and-their-double-standards.htm

10. Religion Vs Political Ideology

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/religion-vs-political-ideology.htm

9. Concept of jails – the inhuman angle

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/concept-of-jails-the-inhuman-angle.htm

10. Security is a big joke...

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/security-is-a-big-joke.htm

11. Road Infrastructure and attitude of road users in Indian cities

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/road-infrastructure-in-indian-cities.htm

12. Mayawati and Mulayam - Leaders or Kids??

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/mayawati-and-mulayam-leaders-or-kids.htm

13. Elections, Politicians and Mathematics

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/elections-politicians-and-mathematics.htm

14. Are PILs really in public interest?

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/are-pils-really-in-public-interest.htm

15. Advances by China in Oct 2007 - Is the Government hiding facts?

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/advances-by-china-in-oct-2007-is-the-government.htm

STORIES/CONVERSATIONS TO DRIVE HOME SOME KEY POINTS

1. Poor jawans!! You deserve more respect!!

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/poor-jawans-you-deserve-more-respect.htm

2. Doctors need more support

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/doctors-need-more-support.htm

3. A meeting with anti-social elements

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/a-meeting-with-anti-social-elements.htm

4. Ragging in colleges - No laws can control the menace!!

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/ragging-in-colleges-no-laws-can-control-the-menace.htm

5. When every arm of the nation wants to kill you...

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/when-every-arm-of-the-nation-wants-to-kill-you.htm

6. Confessions of the policemen - Sad state of things

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/confessions-of-the-policemen-sad-state-of-things.htm

7. Police excesses

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/police-excesses.htm

8. Poor politicians!! They are not so bad!!

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/poor-politicians-they-are-not-so-bad.htm

9. Legal system and the mockery surrounding it

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/legal-system-and-the-mockery-surrounding-it.htm

10. Domestic Servants

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/domestic-servants.htm

11. Laziness, Gossip and Country side life in India

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/laziness-gossip-and-country-side-life-in-india.htm

12. Enlightenment for the unemployed

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/enlightenment-for-the-unemployed.htm

13. A girl in a college campus

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/a-girl-in-a-college-campus.htm

14. Tragic meeting with a childhood friend

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/tragic-meeting-with-a-childhood-friend.htm

15. Ghost in the hostel

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/ghost-in-the-hostel.htm

16. Negative gossip and negligence

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/negative-gossip-and-negligence.htm

17. Practical marriage alliances

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/practical-marriage-alliances.htm

RELIGION

1. Gods in the past, present and future

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/gods-in-the-past-present-and-future.htm

2. Why has God created this world?

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/why-has-god-created-this-world.htm

3. True form of prayer

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/true-form-of-prayer.htm

4. Test the power of your thoughts and actions - A practical approach

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/power-of-thoughts-and-actions-a-practical-approach.htm

5. Controlling thoughts will result in miracles

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/controlling-thoughts-will-result-in-miracles.htm

6. Dream and its significance

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/dream-and-its-significance.htm

7. Religion is nothing but civil law of the past

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/religion-is-nothing-but-civil-law-of-the-past.htm

8. Abrahamic Religions

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/abrahamic-religions.htm

9. Origin of Buddhism

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/origin-of-religions-very-brief-1.htm

10. Origin of Islam

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/origin-of-islam.htm

11. Crusade and Jihad

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/crusade-and-jihad.htm

CRICKET

1. Last 12 captaincy changes in Indian cricket and the reasons behind those

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/last-12-captaincy-changes-in-indian-cricket-and-the.htm

2. Sachin Tendulkar, a victim of his own performances

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/sachin-tendulkar-a-victim-of-his-own-performances.htm

3. Sachin Tendulkar and captaincy

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/sachin-tendulkar-and-captaincy.htm

4. Rahul Dravid will make a comeback

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/rahul-dravid-will-make-a-comeback.htm

5. Dravid's performance during the 21 test wins under Ganguly

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/dravid-s-performance-during-the-21-test-wins-under.htm

6. Why Dravid was cornered.

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/why-dravid-was-cornered.htm

7. Is there discrimination against Rahul Dravid?

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/is-there-discrimination-against-rahul-dravid.htm

8. Anil Kumble was impressive as a captain

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/anil-kumble-was-impressive-as-a-captain.htm

9. Are cricket matches fixed? If so, how?

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/are-cricket-matches-fixed-if-so-how.htm

10. Continued ban on Azharuddin not justified

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/continued-ban-on-azharuddin-not-justified.htm

11. Dressing room politics - CRICKET

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/dressing-room-politics-cricket.htm

12. India's performance immediately after the 1983 world cup win

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/india-s-performance-immediately-after-the-1983-world.htm

13 Great Achievements of Indian Cricket before 1983

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/10-great-achievements-of-india-cricket-before-1983.htm

14. Why South Africa did not play international cricket for 2 decades

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/why-south-africa-did-not-play-international-cricket.htm

15. West Indies still hold an edge over Australia in one day internationals

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/west-indies-still-hold-an-edge-over-australia-in-one.htm

16. The Controversial Delhi Cricket Test 1984

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/the-controversial-delhi-cricket-test-1984.htm

17. When Ravi Shastri won the audi car in 1985

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/when-ravi-shastri-won-the-audi-car-in-1985.htm

MISCELLANEOUS

1. Albert Einstein on Mahatma Gandhi

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/albert-einstein-on-mahatma-gandhi.htm

2. Remembering Lal Bahadur Shastri on his 104th birth anniversary

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/remembering-lal-bahadur-shastri-on-his-104th-birth.htm

3. Soaps on TV

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/soaps-on-tv.htm

4. Right to Emergency Care - Supreme Court (A must read)

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/right-to-emergency-care-supreme-court-a-must-read.htm

5. Malayali in every corner of the world - CRICKET JOKE

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/malayali-in-every-corner-of-the-world-cricket-joke.htm

6. Preventing Death

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/preventing-death-through-cryonics.htm

7. What IT sector has done for India

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/what-it-sector-has-done-for-india.htm

8. Swami Vivekananda's historical address at the World Parliament of Religions in 1893

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/swami-vivekananda-s-historical-address-at-the-world.htm

9. Pessimistic view of life - May be pessimists are right

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/pessimistic-view-of-life-may-be-pessimists-are-right.htm

10. Possessiveness is not love

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/possessiveness-is-not-love.htm

11. Why should suicide be illegal?

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/why-should-suicide-be-illegal.htm

12. Rain and the romantic night

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/rain-and-the-romantic-night.htm

13. Traits of the top 6 Indian cities

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/traits-of-the-top-6-indian-cities.htm

14. What Lord Macaulay said about India in 1835 - Every Indian should read this

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/what-lord-macaulay-said-about-india-in-1835-every.htm

15. 9/11 Conspiracy Theories - Top reasons to doubt the official story

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/9-11-conspiracy-theories-top-reasons-to-doubt-the.htm

16. Gifts of our ancestors that we take for granted

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/gifts-of-our-ancestors-that-we-take-for-granted.htm

17. 150 million people murdered by Governments!!

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/150-million-people-murdered-by-governments.htm

18. Practical Project Management in IT

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/practical-project-management-in-it.htm

19. Serial blasts in UP in Lucknow, Faizabad and Varanasi

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/serial-balsts-in-up-in-lucknow-faizabad-and-varanasi.htm

20. Data on suicides committed by Indians

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/data-on-suicides-committed-by-indians.htm

21. Earliest instances of democracy in the world

http://greatthinker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/earliest-instances-of-democracy-in-the-world.htm

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