Blogging

Unless you already have a blog and/or website, I'd earnestly request you have your presence on the web. The blog (short for web-log) of course is the simplest way. It is not necessary to make your blog public, only you may view it or alternatively you can easily restrict the viewership to your colleagues associates etc. If you make it public, lay people like me will also benefit. Eventually you can make your blog into an e-book or a printed book.

The blog is actually your digital diary where you can store anything from videos, music, graphics, pictures and text. The beauty is in the ability to pack almost infinite information in a single textual word or character by simply hyper-linking it to the information you want to classify/store. You go on posting the way things come your mind. Then you can categorize with labels/tags and the posts get automatically classified. You need not publish under you own name. But when you publish something of value, why not?

It's a way of keeping your personal thoughts and knowledge effortlessly recorded. You can easily draw upon it as a resource pool in future. You can also save your posts as drafts indefinitely, before you ultimately publish them. Moreover you are not using your pc's valuable hard disk space. It is stored on some hosting company's server. Everything is free. (Just give yourself a Broad Band connection for ease of operation). More importantly, you do have a duty towards your talents. Your talent already known to others and as well as known only to a few but not others. Now could be the time to make it known too.

Through the ages the typical enlightened Indian mind is against perpetuating its footprint and its achievement. It is a sublime and insouciant stance of the recognised, against the impermanence of things and against materialism. As a result we have a glorious history and rich heritage of knowledge but little or no documentation. This is yet another reason why one should overcome the reluctance and/or phantasm (doubting relevance and utility of your writing) and start blogging.

Why add another project to your already heavy burden?

To help ease your psyche. While writing, you may write only a few sentences but in the process 'n' number of things cross your mind. Thereby your many conscious creations get automatically externalised, (though not actually recorded) giving you a much needed relief.
A thinker once said that he could see some promise in me as a writer. "Do you write?'' he asked me. When I replied in negative, he said I should write, write anything, even a diary, so that I should not repent later that I did not write. I started writing 20 years after that incidence and I am really repenting that I did not start earlier. My son was asking me to write a blog since last three years and I am repenting that I did not start writing it then.
From students and professionals to eminent scientists and thinkers, everybody is blogging. Why not you, and if you do, please let everybody know!