10 years of BluePeepal

My blogging journey Source: iStock Stories need to be told. Especially the ones that go around in your head, long after you have read, experienced or moved on from the subject. They cling to you and wait for that moment of calm, of purposeful reflection, or when you are searching for purpose. I started BluePeepal in November of 2011 as a lens to see the world around me, to verbalise things I understood or, at least took an interest to explore. The name combined the beautiful clarity of blue skies and Peepal, the tree that is associated with search for meaning. How it all began? Around mid-2011, the financial press was screaming of debt crisis in Europe with Greece in particular. The world was still in the grip of post 2008 crisis anxiety attacks, the Euro block in a crisis of confidence. Rebalancing Euro was my debut article that reasoned why not put Greece in some quarantine, work with a stability plan than bloat the situation and wreck nerves all around the world. Austerity was a co...