1001

As the title states, this is a major milestone post in this space – having completed 1000 blog posts. What started as a whim, 12 and a half years back, when many of my peers where posting things left right and center, had outlived most of them, shows much about my producti”vetti”. Many a times in between, I had thought, this would be the end of this blog space. It has overcome restrictions in the form of proxy servers, mind blocks, lack of time and simply being lazy most of the times.

All through, one person who has stood by through thick and thin and has commented on almost every single post of mine, ever since he started visiting this space. He is truly “aayirathil oruvar” and deserves special mention. I make it a point to mention him on every milestone post, to not just put “maska” for getting comments (aaiaioa unmaiya sollitene) but also as the only way to express my gratitude. He is like Sadayappa vallal to Kambar for me. When Kambar was writing his Ramayanam, he made it a point to include a line in praise of his patron every 100 songs. When there were objection from the crowd that there are way too much mention about the patron in line with the god himself, Kambar moved the mention to every 1000 songs and said, truly it matches his patron as he is one in 1000. Naan Kambarum illa. Inga posta varathulaam ramayananum ila J But he is one true patron for this blog space and it is none other than “Thala Ramesh”. As much as I see if the post has been uploaded correctly, the next closest thing that I keep checking for are his comments, probably the only saving grace on/about the post. Even for the mokkaiest of them, he would grace it with his presence and even for those points he is dead against, he would still ooze grace in the way he puts forth his point of view.

The next person would be one of the reason behind majority of the book review posts in this space – Bragz. He is like book curator for me and always is kind enough to drop me with specific books, that he feels I might enjoy and needless to say, has a more better understanding for my taste in books. Majority of the book reviews in this space are credit to him. Till few years back, when I was still watching movies in theaters, it was Aarti who was my partner in crime. Most of the movie reviews are attributed to her undying spirit of watching movies and the bug had rubbed on big time on me, except that the theater watching experience is off late replaced with home experience. Many thanks to her indirect contributions to most of the movie reviews in this space. There is Athivasi madam who drops by occasionally and has memory rivalling only Sheldon cooper in pointing out for aracha mavu posts, when I repeat myself. And to any other person whom I’ve missed out, my sincere thanks for enabling this space to clock 1000 posts.

Innum evlo naal odum therila. But it has been such a wonderful journey to meet so many interesting folks across all these years and indirectly the space being an record of some of the events, it has nostalgia written all over it and credit to all of you for making it happen.

Mikka nanri.