400, not out

CitizenSBI Blog equals Brian Lara’s record

Our next target – a real stiff one – equalling Sachin Tendulkar’s aggregate of highest test runs!

Would you believe that this blog has avid readers in the United States, China, Germany, Lebanon, New Zealand, Thailand and Burkina Faso!

Brian Lara holds the record for maximum runs – 400, not out - scored in an innings by an individual in test cricket.

CitizenSBI Blog has just crossed this historic landmark. This is the 401st post on the blog. We sincerely thank our readers and contributors on this occasion.




For those who have tuned in late, we present here some facts and figures about the journey of this blog:

• We began our humble journey as a forum for Citizens SBI to share their opinions and experiences. It has gradually emerged as a chronicle of enlightened citizenship movement in the State Bank of India with contributions pouring in from all corners of the country. Today, it is recognised worldwide as a micro portal for all human beings seeking authentic happiness, inner fulfillment and a meaningful life.

• The blog has an average daily hit rate of more than 250 and is keenly followed in the United States, United Kingdom, Asia/Pacific Region, Germany, Netherlands, Malaysia, Canada, Italy, France, Israel, Australia and New Zealand. It has also been viewed in Finland, Korea, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Indonesia, Burkina Faso, Bahrain, Thailand, Bahrain, Pakistan, Philippines and Lebanon. This cluster map of our readership would make the popularity of our blog more vivid.

• The blog provides links to valuable readings on enlightened citizenship through the Enlightened Citizenship website which is a real treasure-trove in the virtual world and the blogs - Living Knowledge, Enlightened Citizenship and Science of Human Possiblities.

• As on date it has posts under the flowing labels (the numbers in brackets indicate the number of posts under that label):

o Audio/Video (4)
o Buzz (19)
o CitizenSBI Blog (4)
o Egytian Sphinx (1)
o Empowerment (1)
o Enablement (6)
o Engagement (5)
o Etcetera (14)
o Evolution (10)
o Facilitator Gym (1)
o Feedback (25)
o From the Classroom (2)
o Heart Talk (5)
o Hindi Posts (54)
o Impact (16)
o Inspiring (48)
o Micro Finance (1)
o Moments (91)
o Over to Facilitator (17)
o Photographs (14)
o Positive Contribution (2)
o Quotations (13)
o Readings (41)
o Soul Curry (14)
o Swami Ranganathananda (4)
o Swami Vivekananda (5)
o The First Citizen of SBI (6)
o Transformative Contribution (13)
o V Srinivas (7)

• Under the labels ‘Readings’, ‘Soul Curry’ and ‘Inspiring’, you will find some of the best self-help articles from magazines, newspapers and the web. Besides, the blog has beautiful poems, quotations, photographs, audio-videos, impact stories and quite a number of posts in Hindi.

• We are looking forward to publish a selection of contents from the blog in the form of a book shortly which will serve as a permanent dossier of citizenship movement in the State Bank of India.

Having equalled Brian Lara’s record, we at the CitizenSBI blog have set up our next target – a real stiff one – equalling Sachin Tendulkar’s aggregate of highest test runs!

Cheers!

Jagat Singh Bisht
State Bank Learning Centre,
Indore

P.S. - The training workshop for Intervention Leaders-II and Master Facilitators has just concluded at the Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai. They will, in turn, train the Facilitators at Gurgaon and Hyderabad from tomorrow onwards and the training is likely be completed by the 15th June. The Intervention-II is also likely to be rolled out during June. We cordially invite and hope to publish many interesting and valuable stories from the intervention stakeholders. Please mail your contributions to citizensbiblog@gmail.com.