Hurray 12th Birthday! Not mine, though I wish it was! Ghumakkad, your blog, completes 12 years.
Rooted in Nature, Ghumakkad would like to express our gratitude to you for continued readership and feedback. The picture below shot in Pichavaram Mangroves in Tamil Nadu last week, shows the mangroves up close. Like the roots of the mangroves, Ghumakkad's blog is rooted to each one of you who give us energy and encouragement.
Last 12 months saw a phenomenal jump in the page views from 291,000 to 450,000! Wonder if we can expect similar growth this year! It is the magic created by the readers!
Last year we had shared a snapshot of our content and its variety. We are re-posting it to save our effort. We have added a list of posts most viewed in last 12 months. Read on.
The Journey
Ghumakkad started as a travel blog. Our inaugural story was a set of eight posts on picturesque Bhutan. Initially the blog was by invitation . Naturally it had very limited page views in the first three years. Once opened to public, more readers enjoyed browsing it. See the graph below which shows the current page views at 450,000 with more than 4660 comments. This is the 612nd Post of our blog.
Our blog has a variety of content with pictures. Some of the themes are listed below with links to connected stories:
- Travelogues like A Train journey in USA, Scuba diving at 65, Hiking up the Tiger's Nest in Bhutan, Toddler on a Hike
- Wildlife including The Big Five of Africa, Tigers of Tadoba, Birds of Ranganathittu, Rescuing a Black Winged Stilt
- Environment including Trees (White Jamun?, Neem Trees Under Attack), plants (Friendship With Plants), insects and flowers (Brahma Kamal)
- Online Contest called Kaun Banega Ghumakkad which has completed 80 editions so far!
- Lesser-known India series Hindola Toran, Devarakonda Fort and more
- Entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship stories like Dreams to Reality, Young Entrepreneurs Bootcamp, Startup Fever Grips VVISM
- Teaching and learning (Ghumakkad is a teacher!) including real-life case studies and Innovations in A Convocation
- Obituaries of leaders like Dr Abdul Kalam and martyrs like Capt Ravi Shankar
- Motivational posts specially during Covid
- Guest stories including those written by the children (Coyote Gulch Hiking in Stream), Covid survivors (I Got A New Life) and Animal Lovers like Rohini
- Picturesque Quotes having one of our pictures with a famous quote like Claude Monet on Nature and another one by a KBG winner.
- Adventure and Endurance like An Ironman in the Family, Women Hiking in Water
The Readership
