Fractal Blog Network

Welcome to the Fractal Blog Network

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This blog was started with the aim to showcase not just our growing database of content, but make it possible for our readers to connect with the people behind the monitor.

The Fractal Blog Network as it can be seen is built by every day people Bhavika and Clyde, who could always use some help maintaining it, if you think you have an opinion to share we are willing to publish anything insightful :D

Our blogging journey began with Fractal Enlightenment in 2006, which covers an interesting mix of topics ranging from Artwork, Culture, Travel, Photography, Spirituality and Issues that affect our daily lives. It is our favorite blog and the most frequently updated one!

With the ups and downs of Fractal Enlightenment, we ventured into newer territories on the blogosphere and have now turned into full time bloggers. Lets take you through our list of blogs.

The Blog Full of Games

Blogger Blog Templates

Reliance Big TV

Mumbai Mania

Green Karjat

Goan Food Recipes

Poetry Blog

Every once in a while Clyde likes to pen down his thoughts in the form of art, thus Poetry from the Mad House was born. Its the least updated blog, around once and twice a month.

Thank you for helping us scale new heights, we do hope you have a wonderful stay on our blog network. Select any of the blogs above to get more in-depth details about them.

The motto of Fractal Blog Network is to grow, enlighten and spread the love! As we grow we want to help everyone around us grow, welcome to our world.

Bhavika Jhaveri

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I stepped into the world of blogging with our first blog Fractal Enlightenment started in 2006, and from there on its been no looking back. With a passion for writing, I have always enjoyed connecting with readers in a way that encourages us to step it up. Patience is the key to happiness, and I am learning that trick to eventually make a living out of blogging.

A quick rundown into my professional and educational background. Its been a while since I graduated from HR College, Mumbai, with a Bachelors degree in Commerce along with a Degree in Travel and Tourism in 2003. During that time around I was a cricket fanatic, in its true sense, and I mentioned this because that influenced my career choice as well.

I enrolled for a Diploma Course in Journalism at KC College, with the intention of becoming a sports journalist with a news channel. Luckily that didn't work out, as you will find out on reading more about me.

My first break came when I was working for Channeltimes.com, a IT website, as a writer. I worked for a year and half and got promoted twice in that period, and started liking my job. Then I received a call to join Wisden Cricinfo, the leading cricket website, definitely one of the major highlights of my career. I grabbed the opportunity and started writing cricket reports, news and few statistics articles, it was a dream job for me in the beginning. The editor of cricinfo was also quite impressed with my work.

However, in six months, I got an overdose of cricket, the excitement of watching a game started to fizzle out, and it affected my writing as well. So I thought to myself that probably I shouldn't make a living out of my hobby.

I quit the job in nine months and joined the business publications of Indian Express. I began to write for travel and hospitality magazines of Indian Express. While working there, I got the opportunity to travel.

Traveling is something I really enjoy, admiring the beauty of nature, trekking, capturing it with the camera, gives me immense satisfaction. At that time, Fractal Enlightenment was born too, so I use to put up my travel escapades on the blog.

After a while, I wanted to learn something more than just writing, so I tried my hand at marketing and PR, working for TRAC, a destination marketing company. In retrospection, not a good decision as it wasn't something I wanted to do, neither did I enjoy my job. Along with that office politics made it difficult for me to carry on.

So here I am, I quit my job in September 2008, and am now working full-time on our network of blogs, which have shown a good and steady growth due to your support and feedback. Hope you continue that and help us realise our dream!

Clyde Fernandes

2008-10-24T05:21:00.000-07:00

I have worked at multiple places before I started my career as a professional blogger, but before that let me take you through my educational background.

I excelled in school, winning elocution competitions and ranked well amongst my mates until the eighth standard because that's when I questioned this education system and kind of tuned off. I passed my 10th just missing a first class, and moved into college.

I choose to major in Science, although if I had to do it again I would choose Arts, thats where all the chics are :) Prior to that I was hooked onto the 8, 16 and 32 bit gaming consoles, battling with friends on Playstation on the pretext of studying for my 12th. However, I managed to scrape through and graduated in Botany.

While I was in college I worked for Apnaloan.com doing some monotonous data entry work. Talk about jumping from the frying pan to the fire, I quit that job and got into a call center, "Hello, This is Clyde Fernandes calling from Providian Financial. May I please speak with XYZ."

Yes I turned into a robot, following a script with instructions for two years, with Epicenter Technologies. After the BPO I wanted to make video documentaries, so I signed up for a course at Bombay College of Journalism that never taught me what I wanted but I have a certificate stating I'm a Journalist.

But it did expand my perspective, there's no doubt about that and of course I met Bhavika there :) During the course I got a job at Channeltimes.com, writing about the IT Channel in India and then under the same company I moved to Techtree.com that caters to consumer technology.

So I was there for two years, until I jumped to another field of selling flowers around the world with Flora2000.com. In a short span I was managing and making decisions in the Affiliate Marketing section. At that time I started our first blog Fractal Enlightenment with Bhavika which we updated pretty regularly.

At the same time in two years I had achieved a 400% increase in affiliate sales and an overall boost of over 40% of the companies sales. But in the end of it the regular office politics forced me to quit. After that I decided to become a full-time blogger.

In all the companies I've worked, I did some good work, but somehow because of my code of ethics I never ended up climbing the corporate ladder, as I never sucked up to my bosses. So finally with a lot of faith in myself in October 2007, I started pursuing my own dreams as a full time blogger, with a blog income that was 17 times lesser than my salary and barely enough to pay a cell phone and Internet bill each month, it was a new beginning.

Not only has this been a great change for me in terms of escaping the rat race but the work from home job has given me time to do things that I never had the time to earlier, as I was leading an unsatisfying life. I have more time for family and helping myself grow on a spiritual level as well.

Since that day there has been no looking back and we now have an entire network of blogs that are doing better all thanks to you! Do hope you have the courage to follow your own dreams, believe in yourself and all power is yours!

Blog Policies

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All blogs that belong to the Fractal Blog Network are covered by these policies.

All content is created by us, wherever content has been sourced due credit has been given.

All content is covered by the Creative Commons license, by which you can use any of the information and pictures as long as you give us due credit for what we have done!

Apart from that, we do not leave any information or interfere with your privacy anyway.

If you would like us to get to know you, which we would like, do leave us a comment!

All comments with links to irrelevant sites will not be published.

We do not intend to spread hate, we wish to spread joy and peace. If we offend you in anyway, leave a comment or mail us so we can begin a conversation to understand each other better.

Advertisements as well as tracking cookies are stored but you have entire control over this.

Tracking programs like Google Analytics as well could leave a cookie to let us know how often you come to our blog.

Copyrighted Material:

If there is anything in this blog network that you do not want us to have online as you are greedy do send us a mail and we will remove it for you.

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The Fractal Blog Network

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The first blog on the Fractal Blog Network originated two years ago, today the network has grown over six frequently updated blogs targeting a variety of segments.

The fractal blog network hosts a plethora of information, entertainment, tools and is expanding into new sections as it expands. Here's a look at whats blogged on the network.

Fractal Enlightenment

A Blog Full of Games

Blogger Blog Templates

Reliance Big TV

Goan Food Recipes

Karjat

Mumbai Mania

Poetry from the Mad House

Mumbai Mania

2008-08-07T10:28:00.000-07:00

Having lived in the city for so long, blogging about it was inevitable. Mumbai Mania will show you the many faces of the city, its people who are the real heroes, the events that stir our emotions, the places which hold important cultural significance and the different customs followed in this cosmopolitan city.

In a nutshell, the key highlights of Mumbai Mania are -

Highs and lows of living in the city.

Photographs to give you a feel of Mumbai.

Information on interesting events happening in the city, related to documentaries, art, culture and so on.

Travel guide for tourists from across the world.

The Voice of Mumbai that keeps a track of developments in the city.

Green Karjat

2008-08-07T10:03:00.000-07:00

Located approx 90 kms from Mumbai, Karjat is a great escape from the concrete jungle, where you can immerse yourself in the beauty of nature. Being frequent visitors to Karjat, we wanted to find different trek routes, places to see and the adventure activities taking place around the area, but there was a dire lack of information.

This led to the creation of the Green Karjat. The blog showcases nature's beauty with beautiful landscape pictures and variety of flora and fauna.

In a nutshell, the key highlights of Karjat are -

One-stop guide on Karjat

Includes information on places to see, things to do, accommodation

Photographs will take you on a visual ride to this amazing getaway

Goan Food Recipes

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If you have visited Goa and eaten the sumptuous local cuisine, then you know what Goan food is like. A coconut-based cuisine influenced by the Portuguese, is well-known around the world because Goa is a popular tourist destination. If you like to get a taste of Goa at home, then the Goan food blog takes you on a culinary journey with some authentic Goan recipes from Sorpotel to Bibinca, passed on from generation to generation.

In a nutshell, the key highlights of Goan Food Recipes are -

Step-by-step guide on Goan dishes.

Each recipe is accompanied by pictures to guide you through every process.

Includes secret ingredients only known to the best Goan chefs.

Hoping my Jain wife will cook these for me.

Reliance Big TV

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In a bid to cash in on the emerging trends in the Indian Direct-to-Home market, we decided to keep track of the BIG player to enter this segment. Although this is the unofficial blog of Reliance Big TV, we provide you with the latest news and information as and when it happens. This blog has the most updates on Big TV as compared to any other source on the Internet.

In a nutshell, the key highlights of Reliance Big TV are -

One of the first blogs dedicated to Big TV

Includes over 30 posts before the launch of the service itself

Unbiased opinions and analysis

Blogger Blog Templates

2008-08-07T09:47:00.000-07:00

With our ever-growing blog network, it was difficult to find a single resource for beautiful blogger templates. Keeping this in mind, we decided to set up a blog dedicated only to showcase free blogger skins from various template designers and porters (people who convert templates from wordpress and css themes available on the Internet). You will be able to find over a hundred skins that can be downloaded to suit your blog's content

In a nutshell, the key highlights of Blogger Blog Templates are -

Acts as a Database of Blog Designers and Template Resources.

Well-categorised as per columns and colour themes.

Assistance with regards to template change.

Fifteen free blogger templates every month.

The Blog FULL of Games

2008-08-07T09:45:00.000-07:00

The Blog of Full of Games is a collection of the most enjoyable free flash games on the Internet. In less than a year, it has developed a dedicated user base and receives healthy amount of search engine traffic. Using Google pages and Blogspot, it is able to host its own games, with the option of allowing users to embed them on their website, blog or MySpace profile.

It caters to both casual and enthusiastic gamers, featuring a genre of games like skill, action, adventure, racing, shooting, puzzles and fast-loading games. Description of the games under each genre makes it easy for the users to select a game.

In a nutshell, the key highlights of The Blog Full of Games are -

Offers games catering to every user

Fast-loading games for people on low bandwidth

Features a new game every week

Games are played and uploaded only if they are enjoyed

Fractal Enlightenment

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Conceptualised in 2006, Fractal Enlightenment aims at creating awareness and spreading knowledge about topics close to our heart. From traveling in India to throwing light on myriad and quirky customs of various cultures, or environmental and global issues that stir our emotions, Fractal Enlightenment has shown steady growth in this period. This can only be attributed to the continuous support and appreciation of our readers.

In a nutshell, the key highlights of Fractal Enlightenment are:

Covers topics ranging from travel, culture, issues, aspiring people, photography, technology and online marketing, thereby giving an overall insight to readers.

Featured in magazines like Health n Nutrition, V Rebel and quoted in The Indian Express, The Telegraph and Mumbai Mirror.

More than 750 well-researched posts.

Intriguing photography.

Detailed account of travel escapades in India.

Our Friends

2008-01-09T21:51:00.000-08:00

Psychedelic Adventure, started by Abhishek, covers topics ranging from, Music, Spirituality, Crop Circles, ET, 2012, UFOs, Trippy Movies, Psychedelics, Indigo Children and Torrents.