A new history blog

September 5th, 2005 by jk | Filed under Blogs.

I am happy to announce a new blog, The Palm Leaf, devoted to Indian History, hosted here at varnam.org. From now, the regular blog will cover current issues whereas time travel will be done in the history blog. This new blog has been initialized with all the history posts from the original blog.

The word, Palm Leaf, was chosen as it was a popular medium of writing in India for almost two thousand years. Letters were written on a dried, smoothed, smoke treated leaves of palm trees using a stylus and then blackened with vegetable juice and lamp black. This site hopes to be the electronic version of those palm leaves.

Even though the tagline says, A look at India’s Past, I don’t plan to cover each and every topic related to our history. So you will not see much mythology or discussions of various religious texts. Instead there will be archaeological news, coverage of development of language, and information on people, places and monuments. There will be more posts about the Mauryan empire, Saraswathi-Sindu civilization and Kerala due to my current interest in those areas.

On the technical side, the new blog runs Movable Type 3.2 with dynamic publishing. This means that only the main page has a physical existence. Rest of the pages are created on the fly based on the request. The style of the new blog is the same as the old one, but it will be changed soon.

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6 Responses to “A new history blog”

  1. Ravages | 5/09/05

    Thank you! Thank you!

  2. Srijith | 5/09/05

    Nice initiative! Will be following it with great interest.

  3. Sandeep | 6/09/05

    Nice initiative, JK :-) Look forward to reading it regularly.

  4. JK | 6/09/05

    Thank you for the support. I found that you cannot rely on the saffron crowd and stalin crowd for understanding history. It is better we find out for ourselves from various sources without supressing opposing point of views.

  5. JK | 6/09/05

    Thank you for the support. I found that you cannot rely on the saffron crowd and stalin crowd for understanding history. It is better we find out for ourselves from various sources without supressing opposing point of views.

  6. buck | 7/09/05

    niiice… :-)

    have been an intermittent reader of ur blog…enjoy ur history posts a lot…good luck with the new initiative…

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