The leaves have fallen. The winter chill has set in. More time will be spent indoors than out. That's just how it is going to be. I don't expect to be traveling much for the next few months, so I have taken it upon myself to make some changes. Small changes and big changes.

This blog will look, feel and be different. I am hoping for a mid-December re-launch; consider it an early Christmas present to you and myself. I don't want to over promise you anything. But the changes will be happy ones for photographers working in South Asia and for writers, artists and musicians of South Asian origin.

If my silence here has been deafening (grin), I hope the new website will be a symphony to your ears and eyes.

Meanwhile, email me with your suggestions and links to cool people and projects that I should know about and blog, at tiffinbox (at) pipalproductions (dot) com. I am looking forward to hearing from you.

It's been a long time since I posted here. I am looking at some options – perhaps moving my site, completely redesigning it or better yet having it redesigned by a pro who has the time to do it. My time these days are spent on my professional documentary wedding photography website and blog, so forgive me while I try and make a living.

The point of this post, however, is this. If you are a blogger and you aren't reading Remarkablogger on a daily basis, you are shooting yourself in the foot. Actually, make that both feet.

Michael Martine who runs Remarkablogger has a cool new opportunity for you bloggers who feel no link love from the world. Go, nay, run to his recent post about boosting your traffic and simply follow the directions there.

Then, wait and watch. Pretty cool, eh?

Confused? Hope not. I stumbled upon a blog today called “Tiffin Box” that is all about vegetarian cooking. .

“I’m a vegetarian Indian graduate student living in the American Midwest. I love food and I miss home. There’s no “ethnic” market here to speak of, and I don’t have access to most of the vegetables and other stuff I need to cook real home-style Indian vegetarian cuisine.”

Yummy stuff. Go check it out (then come back here to comment).

I tooled around this site and made things look a little pretty. If you are reading this blog through a RSS feed reader, you are unlikely to see the sheer beauty of it all [said tongue-in-cheek]. I have thought about having a designer completely revamp this site, but that takes bucks. Got some to spare? I am going to continue tweaking the lists (especially the long ones) so that they are presented to you in a more elegant fashion. My goal here is to have my audience view this page quickly. Even on a fast connection, I sometimes feel I am viewing this site on a dial-up. Ugh!

So, keep coming back and comment here about your experience with this site. What works, what is useful, what is sheer crap. I am all ears. It's time for, um, CHANGE*.

*This post inspired by Sen. Barack Obama.

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