Why a Blog???

Being a part of TIA right since the time it was still TIA and not Mrs. TIA and being through the journey along side Swathi and many of the fellow-TIAns and having known the sense of loss when we kind of lost of our community to hackers and a lot of other happenings in it, I had thought about a database to prevent data loss and what started then is being continued still, so a big yay!! to me for having sustaining interest so far...

The loss and regain episodes will be mentioned by Swathi in her Journey in a post shortly hereafter., the idea of a blog or a database to store the valuable data and puts shared by many women across the world and here we have the blog all for ourselves... In no way is it going to steal the thunder from under TIA, it is just a listing of what happens over there, an overview at a glance...

Managing the community the way Swathi does with the help of few handpicked volunteers is really awesome. She guards it like a lioness and at times seems to be a HITLER as we lovingly call her, but all said and done, TIA is what it is because of her. What happens undercurrent never effects the day to day proceedings and that is the best part of it. There have been ups and downs, but we stood and got stronger thanks to each and every active participant and contributor.

To me, initially, it was just a time pass when I was abroad, lonely, no job, nothing to do after the husband goes to office, no one to chat with online, parents fast asleep due to time difference.. but without even realizing when and how it became an integral part of my life.. meant for social networking "orkut" and its communities come and go but to me, this one will stay forever.

Started way back in the last leg of 2007, stopped in between for a while and then reactivated in 2009 and continuing ever since, even the blog has crossed several milestones...

A certain section of the blogroll if you note has been inactive for a while, like Pregnancy Concepts, Beauty etc which have been untouched for long.. Reader's Corner too would have been in that category had it not been for Prasanna's intervention and later Sireesha's initiative.. avid reader, busy mom, student, working woman.. she manages all those roles with ease.. a big thanks to her!!!

Coming to active exclusive TIA blogs.. a biiiiiiiiiig applause to Usha for taking forward Shadruchulu from where Shraavzzz left and putting up prompt updates.. I remember the data dumped by me at one location with one template change and this was sorted and brought to order by Shraavz.  Now, it is Usha who keeps it alive.. yay!!!!

A writer herself, taking forward the initiative of story writing and serial writing by Shireen, Swathi does a great job of updating the writers' blog.. it is amazing to see so much of talent.

The couple of blogs that are inactive are Beauty and Pregnancy.. Srividya did her best for a while, Hima Bindu did an awesome job of collecting the data and my job got easier, just copy and paste.. so it is kind of crude without refinement during the latter part as my focus shifted from pregnancy to child care and no active volunteering offered..

Beauty started by Hyma is still waiting for volunteers... any help??????

The only odd man out in this whole blog-o-mix is First Steps, my personal blog, predominantly from my experiences and explorations but cannot deny the role of TIAns in gaining that.. the contributors in this blog may not necessarily be members of TIA or from the community info alone, any committed source who can give any value addition is welcome.. hence it cant be categorized as an exclusive TIA blog.. Among TIA'ns Renuka, Keerthi, and Visa are the contributors.

So, in this month to celebrate the anniversary of TIA, we present a whole new blog with makeover and all and a new member roped in to help... Kalpana, a word about her is, she is my best buddy, dedicated and someone who does not rest until the task on hand is done to perfection, so an apt choice!!!

And last but not the least, the appreciation award given to me by Swathi kind of jolted me to action, thanks for that...err.. must say everything emo kada?...

Wish us Good Luck... the entire team of TIA the community as well as the blog, the owners, the moderators, the members, the contributors... and yay!!! We do Rock!!