चाय की दुकान crossed a landmark yesterday night…

Fifty Thousand

पचास हज़ार !!!

and I am thankful to everyone who has been here once, twice, or many times !!!

I have always maintained that I write for myself, to clean my system, to make myself happy, to vent out, to share a laugh, to avoid dropping a tear, to be honest to myself…

That still stays the primary reason for this blog’s existence, however I would be lying to myself and to everyone who visits, if I do not agree to these visits being a key motivator for this long journey…

मैं अकेला ही चला था जानिब -ऐ -मंजिल ,
लोग साथ आते गए और कारवां बढ़ता गया

Thank you शुक्रिया धन्यवाद благодаря 谢谢您

For the records…

The blog used to be called

Life as a (W)hole when it started… reason being that I was talking about life, and everything about it… and the hole signified that everything was going into this blog hole…

It became चाय की दुकान… Sometime in August last year… almost one year ! Read more HERE…

For the love of numbers: Today the main page gets about 100+ hits everyday with an average visit length of about 3.5 minutes…
60% of visitors are from Asia, 30% hits from the US, about 5% from Europe…
74% of visitors use Windows XP, 17% use Vista, 2% Linux and 1% Mac OS (I wish Mac Users were more… seriously)
35% users see Chai Ki Dukaan on IE7, 34% still use IE6, and 29% are Firefox users…

And

Thank you Again everyone… hope to see you around !!!

P.s. (thanks to Mayuri for the idea)…

This weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 1-3rd August’08), all your Canteen ki चाय, Roadside ढाबे की चाय, Parle G Biscuits, Tiger Biscuits, समोसे, Bread पकोडे are on me !!!

Enjoy yourself and share the bill with me, I promise to reimburse !!!

पर ऐसा मत करना के,

खाया पिया कुछ नहीं
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