A recent perusal of my blog stats has told me that my Indian readers are now the third most numerous, after the USA and Britain. This is undoubtedly helped by the fact that so many people in India speak English, and write their own blogs in English too.
As well as that, they represent a significant percentage of my blog followers, and many of them are fully-engaged bloggers who regularly comment on my posts. This pleases me a great deal, as we have hundreds of thousands of people from an Indian background living in the UK. When I lived in London, I met and worked with many, and was always interested in their culture. This not least because my dad spent a long time in India, serving there in WW2 from 1941-1946. He showed me numerous photos of his travels there, and regaled me with tales of that exotic land in my youth.
Sadly, I never got around to visiting any part of that country, and fear it may be too late for me to do that now. But through the wonder of blogging, I can see and hear the lives of people there, and appreciate the differences, good and bad.
I have featured some Indian bloggers and authors on this blog before, but I would like to do more.
So if you are one, and follow my blog, please think about sending me a guest post, telling me and all my readers about where you live, what you do, and what life is like for you in that vast country, with its huge population. If you are interested in doing that, then send me an email to petejohnson50@yahoo.com and I will let you know what is required.
Best wishes to you all, Pete.
Hello Pete. I’m Ankita and I’m from Kolkata, India. It was called Calcutta during the British rule and was the first capital of British India too. Your father must have been here when he was posted in India. Nice to meet you on WP. 😊
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Hi, Ankita.
Yes, my father did visit Calcutta. Also Bangalore, Madras, Hyderabad, and Delhi. There was also come time spent in Ceylon, and Karachi, as he moved around a lot. He was training Indian soldiers to use artillery in case of a Japanese invasion, and he always spoke highly about how efficient and brave they were.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It’s never too late Pete…you can still plan to visit this incredible country, I’m sure you’ll not regret. It’s really very heartening to hear about your connect with this country. Good luck 👍
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Hi I am from India too. 😊
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Nice to meet you. P&P. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Nice to meet you too😊
Regards
Rupa!
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Let me know if you ever want a guest post on here, Rupa. 🙂
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Thank you so much! That’s so nice of you. Will surely do, Pete.
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This is what to do. 🙂
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Will do it soon. Thank you again. Very thoughtful.😊
Regards,
Rupa
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I felt so proud after reading this🇮🇳😌❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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I am very pleased to hear that!
Best wishes, Pete.
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I am an Indian blogger myself and I completely agree with the fact that we meet people from around the world here at WP. More power to blogging ! Do check out my blog
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Hi, Piyush. Many thanks for following, reading and commenting.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It is very proud feeling to see that people from all over the world like India and Indian culture
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In Britain, we have a close connection to your country, as well as a large Indian community in many cities here.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks you for your kind words. Will definitely look into it. Following you to get in touch with your articles.
Hey My Name Is Navneet Srivastava and The idea behind my blog is to create social awareness and present everything that inspires people to flow with the trends in the form of articles, photos, videos and more.
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Hi, Navneet. Have a think about a guest post, and I will use it to promote your blog on here. You can always email me with ideas. petejohnson50@yahoo.com
Best wishes, Pete.
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It is never too late to visit India. You are most welcome, Pete. Good to read you.
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Thanks, Nanchi. It might be too late for me now, as I live on my retirement pensions, and I am unlikely to be able to afford to travel so far.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes I have some followers from more exotic shores and they are a breath of fresh air; often expressing a great zest for life. I have never been to India either, only enjoying it vicariously through hearing of ‘visits home’ and holidays. Colleagues at work and neighbours had plenty of amusing and interesting tales to tell. Of course I always admire anyone from anywhere with a great command of more than one language.
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Thanks, Janet. I think being English (or speaking it anyway) makes us a little lazy when it comes to learning languages. I could once converse quite happily in French, but I doubt I could have written this blog in that language.
Best wishes, Pete.
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@beetleypete: Will you allow me to post a few thoughts that came to mind when I saw all the amazing comments on your site as well as some others.
“Be safe everyone. maintain the enthusiasm and continue to encourage and support one another. I pray for an increase in views, followers, likes and comments for everyone who is investing their heart into creating posts that uplift, inspire, educate and build people. Keep it up all you wonderful people. and don’t slack off when the going gets tough or the followers seem far away, rome was not built in a single day it is said, so keep pushing those posts out, only make sure your heart agrees with what you are sending out into the world out there…..these are seeds you are sowing and will bear fruit and come back multiplied….put out nothing but your best and the best will come back to you….” My best wishes to all
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I have allowed your comments, but be careful what you post as comments. They are all automatically placed in Spam by WordPress. You are considered by them to be a Spammer, as the content of your comments is often just one word, and it appears to be unrelated to the post.
Just so you know.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Nice post, Pete!
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I wanted to recognise that there are so many Indian bloggers, Jennie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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And you did that well!
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You are connecting continents, Pete! Thats great! Excuse, seems i more and more becoming a weekend visitor. Best wishes, Michael
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No problem, Michael. Thanks as always for reading and commenting.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Always my pleasure Pete! I missed your blog over the whole week. But always when i tried to visit another horrible letter arrived.
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A great idea Pete.
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Thanks, Lloyd. You know I love to ‘spread the word’. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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You really stole my heart , Pete!🥰 This post made me happy.
Xoxo
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I am very pleased to hear that. Welcome to my blog. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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well said
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I have several as well which please me to no end. This is one of my favorite things about WP. Meeting people from all over the world.
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Yes indeed. We would never meet them otherwise. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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so true
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🤗
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Gret to hear they are interactive Pete, love to hear from people with different cultures and life experiences!
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One of the great joys of blogging!
Thanks, John.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Due to growing up in the States, and living in the Land of Cowboys, it’s always hard for me to immediately think of Indians as being from India. Of course, we try to make the distinction: the American Indian, Native American, or Indigenous American is not the same as the Indian who has emigrated to the States, otherwise known as an Indian American. Unfortunately, we in the States always refer to our country as America when, in fact, we should call ourselves North Americans so as not to offend those from Central or South America. So maybe we should be talking about North American Indians, Native North Americans, Indigenous North Americans, and Indian North Americans. Also, maybe we should rename Squaw Valley (California) to North American Indian Woman Valley, Native North American Woman Valley, or Indigenous American Woman Valley. I wonder if there are any Indian North Americans from India living in the valley?
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Yes, as your comment shows, you do like to have ‘titles’ in America. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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this is wonderful, Pete! 🙂
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Thanks, Wilma. I have so many Indian followers now, I wanted to acknowledge their part in our community.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Really delighted with this post!
And all the happy to know that Indian culture is loved by people all over the world.
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Glad to hear you liked it. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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hmm….
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I seem to have followers from India but none who comment on my blog 😦 I will make the effort to find them and say hi.
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I have those who comment daily, and others who turn up with ‘bulk comments’. My stats always show Indian views in third place now, since the end of 2019.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Let me have a look at it today 🙂
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nice Megha.
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hmm..interesting…..i’m wondering why none comment……any luck since you started trying to find out why?
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No, but then again I have followers from all over the place and none of them comment either! 🤣
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Pete Johnson, will you stop winning people’s hearts??😂😂 You can’t afford a trip here but I can afford a few Indian posts for my dearest friend. I will be bringing up 2 posts a week for you from now on. See India from the UK. I will start soon. Let’s see when I should start but I will do it soon. Btw one day your blog will be number 1 in India, people love to see an old man with such a sweet nature💖.
Take care Pete❤✌😊
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An old man with a sweet nature? I know many who might disagree with that description.
Thanks, Suzan.
Best wishes, Pete. xx
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Yes, a man with sweet nature and even if you know many who might disagree but I know one who won’t. You are a great person Pete. I haven’t met a lot of good people in my life but the ones I have met includes you❤✌
Stay safe💖✌😊
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Thanks for your kind words. 🙂 xx
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You deserve it!! ❤✌😊
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Pete, when I get my act together I will be blogging about my month-long trip to India and I’d love to share my posts with your Indian followers. we visited 15 cities in 32 days and took masses of pics. Is there any way of tagging you on WordPress so you can see it?
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Just send me a link, Lucinda.
peteypops44@gmail.com
15 cities in 32 days is some going!
Thanks, and best wishes.
Pete.
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Hi, Lucinda, I couldn’t stop myself from commenting. I really want to know how you feel about India. I mean I love my country but a perspective of another person is a great way to work in improving our country and besides 15 cities in 32 days, that’s a huge deal. I am definitely waiting for your blog.
Stay Safe 😊✌❤
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There are things I loved and things I didn’t like and I did compare it mentally to Africa where I lived for almost 40 years, Be good to get your reactions – when I get into gear with it all! 🙂
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Hey! I am from India and your post delighted me. You should definitely consider visiting India once everything is fine. You will love it. 🙂
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Thanks for your comment. I sadly think I can no longer afford such a trip, as I am retired from work.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thankfully we have our blogs to connect us all over the world. I will make sure to add more Travelogues so you can virtually travel India. 🙂
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I seem to have many as well…..I even have a few from Kashmir which is interesting…..chuq
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Yes, I have some from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka too. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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