I am extremely happy and proud to announce that my second book titled ' Mohan's Musings', (Volume - 1), a compilation of 20 of my blog posts published in www.wix.com has been finalized and is under printing.
What was initially started as a simple WhatsApp travelogue messages, during our family's Canada and the USA visits in the years 2022/23, traversed through many territories in between, and finally blossomed as a book. In all, a total of 20 blogs/articles have been included in this book.
Initial travelogue blogs/articles lent way to arts, science & engineering, societal issues, current events, sports and medical & health blogs/articles and the blog hosting platform www.wix.com came handy to host them all.
One may observe while reading this book, that the initial travelogue blogs are heavily visual in nature, whereas, the later blogs are content oriented with visuals used optimally. The blog/article titled ' Jews' flight for survival ' (blog no.19) created a lot of interest among the international audience and reached the highest footfall, so far, among all my blogs . The last blog/article ( blog no.20) in this book has been written in Tamil language.
I received great help and encouragement from my family and friends through out the immensely pleasurable journey of publishing this book. I take this opportunity to thank one and all for their help including but not limited to, for reviewing, positively commenting, suggesting improvement, joining my web blog site, suggesting a blog hosting platform and many more.
All my blogs included in this book can be viewed through the link https://rajamohansub.wixsite.com/mohansblog/blog/
You may wonder when my first book was released
About the First book :
The first book is about the 'Genealogy of our clans in our native village' with an International Standard Book Number ( ISBN ) : 978-93-5593-702-5
Whenever, i visited by parents during my annual vacation , while i was working in Kuwait, i had frequent talks with my father, a retired tahsildar, about our clan and their history. He had given some insights about the history of the clan received by him orally through generations. That inspired me to dig deeper and to find out the possible origin of the clan and the family tree of the clan members.
Keeping the information received from my father as the basis , i researched further for about 5 years and glanced/read through for about 40 documents including Tamil Nadu government gazettes, Travancore state manuals, district census books, research papers/manuals and many published books.
In the mean time, our family members collected oral information from many of our clan elders in our native and also about the ancestral family members to construct a family tree.
Based on my research and the the oral information received from our clan elders, an article was written and published in www.academia.edu , a semi academic research paper hosting site . Comments received from the members of the academia.edu , the article was updated.
Since the target audiences' main language is Tamil, the article published in academia.edu was translated by one of our elder clan member and was printed, published and distributed to our clan members in 2022, during the annual village temple festival, and was well received and appreciated by the clan members.
This give me an immense satisfaction of fulfilling my father's dream and be an useful and contributory member in recording our clan's written genealogy and the family tree for nine generations.
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