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A couple of points to note:

1. One of my friends, Partha, has kindly taken on the role of a self-appointed social media manager & created an Instagram account. This is primarily for videos that I have taken and will be taking along the trail. Since videos cannot be uploaded on this blog - at least, not that I have been able to figure it out - please check out the link below, if you are interested:

https://instagram.com/nomad.oogway?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Disclaimer: I have only provided the raw content. For everything else, credit/criticism to Partha 🙂. In fact, I don't have an Insta account and haven't even seen the page yet. Insta is a bandwidth-heavy (both data & mental) app and right now, I am low on both 😏😀

2. I was not aware that people have been leaving comments on the blog posts since I have never actually checked the blog site itself. I just use the Blogger app to upload the blog and that's it. That itself is rather slow and painful in the low bandwidth environment. In fact, now I send the content to Shalini to upload it. Anyway, she just told me that there were a bunch of comments and I am sorry for not responding to any of them till now. I will definitely respond soon as soon as I go through them in a few days. Please excuse my tardiness.

Comments

[v] said…
Guessed that you weren't seeing the comments. Actually leave it. You shouldn't. Be a rebel in the trail. Posting comments is our way of staying in touch with you. All Async.
May 3, 2022 at 10:36 PM
Vipul said…
Not sure about bandwidth but definately you are not low on any other aspects Ravi :-), Enjoy
May 5, 2022 at 8:34 PM
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