സ്നേഹപൂര്‍വ്വം കൈപ്പുഴകാര്‍ക്ക്

Dear brothers & sisters from Kaipuzha:

Nammude Swantham Kaipuzha Group Blog was started only the day before and I find in less than 48 hours it was visited by 221 people, obviously all of them from Kaipuzha. It clearly shows the enthusiasm of our people for this common platform.

A Group Blog is different from a publication or a personal blog. This belongs to all its members.

I Shall briefly try to explain the concept of a Group Blog. (I don’t claim I know much about it. Someone more knowledgeable can give a better explanation).

A group blog has an Administrator and 100 authors. And of course, any number of visitors/readers. The Administrator can invite people to become authors. They need to click on the “Accept Invitation” button on the invitation they will receive by email, signing in with a username and password. Your username and password will be your secret and you don't have to share it with any one. Once you have become an author you can - any time, from any where - visit the blog, sign in and publish new post or edit your own previous posts.

100 different people contributing to our Nammude Swantham Kaipuzha can make this a very valuable and interesting thing for all of us. You can post article, story, poem, memoirs, pictures, videos, anything. Suppose you go to Kaipuzha on vacation (if you live outside Kaipuzha) and come across an old teacher (male or female) whom you had almost forgotten. You talk to him/her and the old memories come back to you. Please write it down – don’t worry about the quality or beauty of the language. It is only for us. Even though it is written in a shabby language, you are writing about things, places and persons we all know. We are interested.

Tomorrow many of you will be celebrating Easter from many different parts of the world. In less than 2 weeks you will celebrate Vishu. Most of you own a digital camera. Take pictures, prepare a Picasa online album and post it here. We would be pleased to see those pictures. Publish here pictures of any celebration in yur family, wedding anniversary, children's birthdays, etc. Remember, it costs you nothing.

If you are in Kaipuzha or around, you will know what is happening there. We, living away from our beloved Kaipuzha, are keen to read about the silliest of silly thing that is happening in our village. Even an argument that takes place in Sasthankal Kavala, a suspicious person walking near Pallithazhe, a thief caught near our Ashupathry, anything. Please do report it for our sake.

When you read about something, try to be generous in posting your comments.

Please note the purpose of this platform is to make us all united. Ensure that you don’t use this forum to attack others. Nammude Swantham Kaipuzha should be beyond political or religious considerations or feelings.

If you want to become an author, send a mail to: nammudekaipuzha@gmail.com

If you want to post materials or photographs and don’t want to become an author, just mail them to the same ( nammudekaipuzha@gmail.com ) email.

Looking forward to see all Kaipuzhawallahs in this forum.

Jai Ho, Kaipuzha.

Alex Kaniamparambil