Goal: 20,000 pageviews

At the bus terminal in Queretaro, Mexico

Dear Readers:

What a long, strange trip it's been. I'm coming up on 20,000 page-views. I never thought the blog would get this far.  I hope you're finding something of value in the re-telling of the Mahabharata. At this writing it would seem the blog has a dedicated readership determined to inspire me to continue.

I have readers in UK, USA, Russia, Ukraine, Ireland, France, Germany, China, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina and Australia as well as other countries.

I started the blog in December of last year and am celebrating the six month anniversary of sorts.  I've just finished writing 365 blogposts.

 I thank you.

Your reading and comments are keeping me going. I'd like to specifically thank a few old souls who have given me inspiration to go on writing, especially B.B. Avadhut Maharaja who ordered me to try and do this, my old friend Bhakti Sudhir Goswami, who set me on this path of writing, the Russian devotees, Vijaya Raman, Prithu Das, Muralishwar, translator, poet, and friend,  Asutosh Krishna, whose kindness in translating me and tolerating me astonishes the mind, Ragalekha who helped me with the Henri Mouhout script before we went to Cambodia, all involved in the legendary trip to Angkor Wat, including Satya Sundar, Indulekha, Indubala, Ananta, the camera guys, Wilbur Force the Amerikanski, and all the great friends and amigos who helped us on the way; I'd like to thank Ananga Mohini, Bhakti Lalita, Priya Nana, the fulldome people, everyone in Thailand and  those of you who take the time to read or translate or share the blog, including the famous murkapujari, kshamadarascal, madhu, govinda vilasa, and those of you who have left comments, and I'd like to give a special thanks to my spanish language translator Teresa Loret de Mola, Tapanandini for graciously rendering Shakuntala and so many other episodes into Spanish.

Thanks once again to one and all. Please forgive my offenses or lack of attention if there's anyone whose name I overlooked.  God bless you all and hope to see you soon.

To the friends on facebook, sorry for inundating you all with my blog updates: it's the best way to publish my writing and get this out to the four corners of the world.  If you like what you read, please share it with your friends.

The humble and fallen, Michael Dolan/Mahayogi.