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Looking forward to many more interesting posts….here’s wishing you all the very best !

Regards,

Girish

well long as you are sure of what you are doing and don’t have to worry about “where my next meal is going to come from” go ahead man….the world is your butter chicken..err…oyster.

You should really sign up for Google AdSense.. and then may be we can click on some of them every once in a while

Now that we get this promise from a master, who is now going to write fulltime , I can’t agree more that this place is going to become some serious fun…..

Waiting in anticipation…. your blog is watched by me more regularly than cricinfo nowadays…

I leave you with a link that I found off another blog site (suzy thank you) that talks about doing what you love.
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html

Hey Sidin…
Missed a few blogs… and catching up now. CONGRATS On the bold step. I GUARANTEE I will buy any book you write, any paper you write for, anything you put your pen to etc etc etc.
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000876.html is very inspring for those trying to chart a new path.
Dont have too much time now… will give a set of leads as soon as I can compile it. All the best. Dont despair… EVER.
Rosie.

Hey, just read about you on some blog. Couldn’t believe initially because of my own weakness.

I wish, I could the same thing some time. I dont know if it could be possible or not but yes you are greaat buddy.

Well,
All I can promise is that I will try to buy an original, not pirated version of your book. And that will depend on the books pricing…so be reasonable!

PJ aside, best wishes to you!

Many people have written to me saying they want to go out and do their own thing as well.
completely true. Even I (for all the mediocrity I possess) got such an idea after reading about your decision!
some human instinct, this one. But since a little bit of head is in place, I didn’t pull the plug :).

Hats off! (did want to say this in the other post, but the comments were already beyond count and that somehow stopped me)..

If your blog followers could be counted in money …you are a billionaire already Great posts , greater passion to follow ur dreams …congratulations …on ur new position “Our Role Model ”

all the very best…hope to get ur autographed book soon !!!

The loss of ATK may turn out to be a boon for many who like reading you .Wish you the very best man

Hats off Buddy!!

One - For having the guts to follow your dreams leaving an otherwise so-called “secure, fixed sal” kinda job.

Two - for something that I repent not having done myself - follow my dreams.

Admirer of your blogs I always was. Count me as an admirer of you as a person as well.

Regards,
Radha.

I’ll be back…

i only hope u blog more often…and not cut down on writing here cos ur doing so elsewhere
godspeed.

I really really apreciate you guts to take a wild decision which would keep you happy. Back in my mind I too want to do something on my own..which I love..with which I would feel happy.But as you said,I need to take some educated risk.Will keep in touch with you.

From whatever I have read.. the 2001 edition of PS at RECT to all your blogs…I guess you r making the right move.
Just remember to offer me a job once you become a media baron

Ravi
(potha batch, Kandu-mallu-nri civil, adis..currently with ITC and admitted to ISB.. Remember moi?)

Good Luck! It takes a lot of pluck to do what you are doing. Have fun and hope you get a weekly column in a newspaper along the lines of Jug Suraiya or something like that.

u r so cool
mini ur own sis

i appreciate ur good descisoin u have taken. it needs a lot of gutts to take such a tuff descision.
varghese
(vangee)

We all visited ur site today and read various comments sent by various ppl, daddy is very happy and proud about ur descision. Our prayers and best wishes will be there with u always.
Love dad, mom, mini, shine and varghese

READ ABOUT THE KBC SCANDAL

How STAR TV and Siddhatha Basu duped people

http://web.mid-day.com/1news/city/2006/january/129413.htm

Sweet to see your family’s comments here. I have marked your blog among my Favourites. Will come by more often…
Now I need to create a Blogger account so that I can have some identity here! Thankfully, some blogs still allow anonymous comments..:-)

Later,
Lakshmi

i realy appreciate ur decision to follow ur dream,i guess evrybody sholud do this but i guess they are all bound by something or the other…….money being the biggest hinderance in people’s life.

Wish I’d discovered your blog earlier!

Lakshmi

Hey Sid….this is one of the toughest decisions you have taken in your life dude!! Hope you succeed in your endeavour…in anycase you still have your trump card ( read IIM degree) in your pocket…so you can always get back to the rigamarole of the corporate life…..but just a passing thought…couldnt you have pursued this writing profession along with your ATK job???

would you be interested to write for ‘The Great Indian Comedy Show’? It’s a sketch & standup show on Star One.
would love to hea from you, my address is indiancomedy@gmail.com

I would like you to read this, sidin..
http://ssrinivas.com/2006/01/i-wish-i-was.html

You write good and juz continue writin’

tokgkhey,

havent been here a while, but if your going to write, you sure are going to make not only bread but also butter!
good luck!

cheers!
r

thanks junta for the paul graham and other articles link!

chow!

happened to read a very interesting (and maybe a year or 2 old) piece of literature by you (”The Travails of Single South Indian men of conservative upbringing”) in our company bulleting board (posted by some fan of yours)… thats what got me here…

way to go, dude. during times when all i can think of is quitting a job that pays well and start doing something that gives me some sense of purpose or achievement, i see guys like you who actually do it… hats off to u…

Dude, I’ve been a regular reader of your blog for about three months now, and you’ve managed to walk away into the sunset with such finesse that there would be a whole lotta people wanting to treat you as a role model.

In addition to the amazing entertainment that your blog provides, you’re now making all these pseud self help books redundant by being a living breathing example of following your dreams.

Congratulations, best wishes, and may all the forces be with you.

Sidin,
I think, when you suspect you are too damn good at something,and when you arent really doing much about it,letting it lie dormant inside you, it is only a matter of time before it begins stirring to life and making a godawful noise to come out. If not now,later, it will get so loud, it becomes bum-f***ing painful ignoring it.(it already did for you) How can you regret something that you just had to do anyway?
You be sure you are going to come across a million snags and blocks you wished you had anticipated, but really, there is only so much of homework you can do,so many of these become evident only after you take the plunge, you being no babe inthe wood types, am sure have done as good a job as anyone can.(yeah yeah..)
There is a also a chance (miniscule) that you find you arent as great a writer you thought you’d be (we all think otherwise :)). but really, when you took the decision, you knew you JUST HAD TO knock, a response, at that point was relatively inconsequential.(no, really..)
I think bouts of doubt at this point is only natural, but then if you put yourself into that frame of mind when you took the decision you’ll know AT THAT POINT IN TIME, you couldnt really have done it any other way, given those premises you had at hand then, you did the only thing you could.

boy,(and cant resist the customary apology rider to all sermonising spiels), but am I sounding full of (sh)it?
Just trying to extend my bit of comfort and enc. here..

d00d, i closely follow ur blog .. & i really admire u on ur decision .. Truth be told, i always wanted to be sidin !!!

a little bit of head is never out of place

hi dear,i just need to ask why u hvnt written any recent posts yet,any specific reasons..

Our place too

Hello there, I am new to blogworld and made it here through various meanderings. Just a short note to say that I enjoyed your posts. It’s great that you are pursuing writing full-time and I wish you all the very best for the future.

Hi!
met you, Boka and Paro at Chaos two days back!! I’m the one who JAMmed with Boka…alas he got through to the finals!

Couldn’t catch up with you after that.

And I forgot to tell you then ,all the best!!!

Boss…ja Rock!
-ls

So, you have signed up for adsense….

hats off dude!!
was talking to ur fren vijay.. discussing ur guts..
I had temporarily left blogging but after hearing ur decision I started blogging anything but atleast blogging..

I read somewhere that shakespeare became famous a 100 years after his death. I have also read that Ghalib and Premchand led a life of penury. Recently well known writer employed with the United nations Shashi Tharoor said ” A full time writer is a rare phenomenan the world over”

So even if is a calculated risk, it takes guts which must be appreciated. I hope that you are successful and form a support group of all similar people(especially writers and poets) so that other people are inspired to chart their own course.

Best of luck.

listen up dude, don’t judge your decision too fast..Just give yourself some time and you will soar up like anything.

You can’t keep a good man(read writer) down for long, just remember that!

Good on ya,mate !
All the very best ! waiting to hear all about you in the press soon !

Congratulations and best wishes Sidin. I look forward to a blockbuster from you.

Cheers,
Nishit

I really appreciate your courage in dropping a ‘regular’ career for something you love doing and obvioulsy excel at. I have been one of those guys who have been lurking around for months, reading and enjoying your blogs but never posting any comment. But even i couldn’t hold on after reading about your decision. Hoping to read some really interesting books authored by Sidin Vadukut in future.

All the best!

Wow!!!

That’s all I can say, being an idiot whose followed societal choices all his life.

Hey Sidin - love your writing style. You’re at your best when you mix humour and hyperbole of the highest order … keep it going and folks will start talking about “sidinisms” some day

I read your blog everyday. Again and Again! You are probably the funniest person writing these days! So kudos and keep writing

hello,
im entering some ones blog for the first time and thats yours.i never knew blog stuff is such a big thing man.all the best.its really a good one da .wishing you all the very best.
i have already joined your fan club.

dawood.

I read thru the Hindi post … and I was a little saddened by the treatement meted out to Hindi … especially the last word … then i realized … Hindi is too vast and rich for it to be belittled … spoken by so many people … you have to LEARN HINDI TO COMMUNICATE … then i laughed at your misery!!!!!!

Congrats sidin. All the very best in the things you do. I was ur batch mate in rec.