300th post-Please delurk
2008 November 7
For someone who has been blogging for quite a while now, I haven’t written all that much. All the same, this is my 300th post. And I demand, no I beg those of you who are lurking, to please de-lurk, even if it is only by anonymous comment. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease. Massage my ego a bit (the legs are getting a good massage already 
).
The rest of you who aren’t lurkers can just congratulate me on my 300th post! As they say in India, “Thanks in advance.”
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Congrats on 300!! I’m a long time reader..I think I’ve commented before as Nandita (about “red earth and pouring rain”)..I love your music posts especially..I should make a habit of commenting more often in blogs I read religiously..
You know, I’ve been thinking about you. Because I just wrote an essay referring to that beautiful poem using AK Ramanujam’s translation. Thanks again.
Delurking to congratulate you and tell you that yours is a bit different kind of blog (in a good way). Keep writing (unlike me).
Thank you. Would you like to write?
Been reading your blog for a while now..Congrats on the 300th post
-A ‘mumbaigirl’ herself
Sigh, am a woman now. My friends didn’t let me change this silly name decided upon on in a moment of madness. Are you still in Mumbai?
delurking here…Congrats! Love your blog.
M
Thank you. Are you the same mysterious M who leaves comments on other blogs?
Congrats MG.
To you too, for being the mother of such a cutie pie!
Mubarak Ho.
Shukriya!
I congratulate myself for leaving a comment on your 300th post
Alright, congratulations to you too!
Was it that onerous?! Thanks!
Delurking to wish! I drop by occasionally at your blog.
Thank you for the wishes.
A big fan of your thought process and writing. Congratulations!
(Also, may I add you to my blogroll?)
Thank you and of course you may.
Alright, if you insist
Been reading for a couple of months now. Live in London myself and draw a few big and small parallels from your posts. 300 is good! I’ve technically had a blog for 3 years now and have only barely scraped past 100. Keep going:)
Am glad I insisted! How are you enjoying the cold darkness of winter?
Hi MG,
Not exactly de-lurking coz I do leave comments now and then but to say I love the writing esp. the bits on classical music. Have been feeling an uncanny urge to take up from where I left off 7 years ago ( seems like a lifetime now) after 15 plus years of rigorous taalim under my guruji and mother. Thanks for bringing a little of that into my humdrum life.
Hi Deea, am glad you enjy those posts. I don’t know much about Indian classical, but really love it and feel the urge to share it. I do hope you start learning again and share your experiences with us.
I will only be happy with cake, but congratulations all the same!
Thanks. You come here and I will give you some cake.
Hmm… what about non-lurkers?
Congratulations!! 300 is most excellent
Well, I did say the rest could congratulate me…thanks!
Congratulations!
May you have many more blog entries to come
Thank you-though it’s hard to keep up with your reading speed!
congrats! keep writing.
(about me: moved back to delhi after living in US for 5 years).
Thanks. Are you enjoying the move? Would love to read your “return to India” perspectives.
Delurking to say hi, I came upon your blog via other blogs and drop in occasionally and go over a lot of posts at once. I think you write well, please keep up the blog
Thanks. I do think of giving it up sometimes.
I’ve commented once or twice long long back.
Congrats on the 300th!
Thank you and do keep commenting
Congratulations!
300 is such a big number! Wonderful.
Thank you. It is 300 in my 30th year!
Hey MG, keep them coming!
Thank you dear, WHEN are we meeting?!
Oh Well! Delurking
Been reading your blog for quite sometime now…
Congrats on your 300th post! Wow! Im yet to get to 100!!
Thanks for delurking! Am sure you’ll get there sooner than I did!
Congratulations, keep them coming!
Dhanyavad
Congratulations!
Thank you. Are you named after the Maharashtrian chincha?
Congratulations. Please do get to 400 soon. all the best.
Thanks, I hope I do get there soon!
I’ve been a sporadic reader of your really enjoyable blog; here’s to a 600 in half the time! Congratulations- and hope the yoga’s helping, along with the massage.
Thanks for commenting, and yes it is helping!
Congratulations!
PS-What’s so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.
http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0300/dubus/interview.html
-Andre Dubus, III, [from an interview by Larry Weissman]
Thank you, that’s a lovely thing to say. I followed the link and read the whole interview, its wonderful. Thanks for pointing me to it.
As a bombayite it was the name that got me to visit ur blog…and the content made me keep coming back:)..congratulations!
Thanks. It was a long time ago that I was a Bombayite, but still love the city.
MG
Been regular here for some months.I comment rarely.
Congrats on 300.
-Nikhil
Thanks Nikhil. I still have to use your suggestions on the header. When the husband is freer I might dare to implement them at last!
Hi there. Doing the de-lurking thing as commanded. Happy 300th. It’s a lot more than my 125 or something like that in almost as long…
Yeah, but your posts are well thought out, whereas mine are often scraps of thoughts!
your journey on the next 300 starts NOW! congrats…
I hope so, thanks!
Boss, delurked as per your instructions. Love your blog and particularly enjoy posts on music as I am a student of carnatic music. Oh, by the way, CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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Thank you. I think I like being called “Boss!”
Congratulatuions! Looking forward to many more posts.
De-lurked a few entries ago. I am a Bombayite, currently living in the UK.
You have a very interesting blog and I love the varied subjects you write on.
Also, as they say in India “no mention”!!
Lurk quite often though have no clue about music…..Congrats.
Hey Chinty- I lurk on your blog too sometimes. I hope things get happier and better for you.
congrats
Thanks
Yay! Congratulations! Happy to be a part of your 300th post.
Thank you, though this post is bit of a cheat!
Wow, congratulations MG.. Celebrations are in order.
Yes they are. Let us finally make it for that coffee-not on a Tuesday
Me.
*waves hand across the Atlantic*.
Keep up the good work here
Priya.
You keep up the good work too. Good luck with the back.
Delurked! I don’t remember if I have commented before, but I have certainly linked to you. So, congrats!!
Way to go!
Yes, thanks for the links and for getting angry on my behalf at some of the more interesting comments!
Hi
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i am a frequent reader , delurking for the first time . I enjoy your writing . I also think your house and garden are very pretty
Jo
Thanks for delurking and thanks for your kind words. The house is old with problems and leans but we love it!
Hi Mumbaigirl
Just a quick delurk to say congratulations on your 300th post. I have recently become a regular reader of your blog and I think you’re doing a great job. Keep blogging!
Thanks!
hi and congrats mg.
always read your posts though don’t always comment. relate big time to them thanks to the london connection but even otherwise its a great blog to lurk/de-lurk.
Thank you. Much appreciated.
Nikhil gave the link to lurk but I am delurking now
Keep blogging and whoaaa 300!! way to go.. btw I adore your comment policy..Lawyer brains there I guess 
Thanks. Tell him to tell people to delurk as well! It’s not just to be pc or “legal”-I actually mean what I say in the comments policy
Congrats on 300. It was hard for me to reach 50.
Cheers.
Thanks!
congrats on 300 MG. Love your blog. Like MadDaddy, it was hard for me to reach even 5 (blush), but I know I will start again soon. here’s to 300 more…
Thanks. I hope you do start again. I remember visiting your blog.
Hay MG, congrats on the 300th post. i am really happy that i found your blog. So many times it articulates beautifully what I have been feeling.
Best wishes, Anjali
Thanks Anjali.
Congratulations MG. I’m a new reader here – couple of weeks old – but love to turn to your blog for the completely unexpected that it throws up. It’s like surfing radio channels to find a bit of a long-lost melody playing somewhere. Small, daily miracles.
hugs.
What a kind, lovely thing to say.Thanks so much.
i read your blog all the time…right after broombox (just in case she is reading my comment here
) congrats! you are incredibly impressive. im a huge fan.
oh and congratulations!
Thank you!
Mumbaigirl,
not sure about the mystery, but yes, I do sign as M on Madmomma’s and Indiequill’s blogs…those are my “regulars” – only comment occasionally on other mom blogs, so you might see an M there once in a while.
M
You are the mysterious one!
Congratulations
Thanks again
Hi MG,
You have a wonderful blog here. I’m a regular reader, and am delurking to say that I enjoy the views you put out here.
Bala