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To restore or not to restore?

Posted on by Niti Bhan

Some of you may have noticed that this site was down with a terminal error between 21 September 2026 and yesterday, 13 October 2026. Just enough time for it to disappear completely from search results. More than 20 years of blogging went *poof* and erased my legacy online. The link takes you back through the Wayback Machine links spanning April 2005 to September 2026.

Instead of being devastated at the thought of rebuilding my domain brick by brick or trying (unsuccessfully) to import the blogposts from the sidelined instance at the back end, I am curiously feeling unfettered and relieved.

I now have a wholly blank slate for the decision to be made. A decisive stage-gate moment which the crash makes easy to contemplate in a manner that would not have been possible if the lingering legacies of my years of writing were still flapping around in the wind like loose threads.

Let us assume for now that I am undergoing the process of decision-making. Blogposts may emerge from this process. I have no answers with which to close this post.

Hello world!

Posted on by Niti Bhan

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

I’ve spent the day building a blogger’s home website from scratch. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve done this since my first foray into the “blogosphere” as we used to call it back in 2005. The old site crashed about a month ago but I was busy completing the major revision of my doctoral thesis which I just sent in for review by my external examiners.

It looks like the technicalities of why the site crashed are beyond repair.

So here I am, starting over on a blank page (as we used to say back when fountain pens had feathers) at the grand old age of 60. I point out that because I remember celebrating my 40th on this blog, a year after I first began Perspective, the blog. Will I name this blog Perspective once again?

This time I truly don’t know. Let’s see where it goes. At least for now, I will use my full name under which I’ve been publishing in peer reviewed scientific journals. But that’s a story for another day.