As they say, all good things mutate in the middle.* It gives me great pleasure to announce that after being a solo blog for almost eight months and 72 posts, Shunya’s Notes is mutating into a group blog. Please join me in welcoming four new bloggers to Shunya’s Notes. For more about them, click on their names or contributor links on the left.

• VP joins us from Neutral Observer. With Attitude aplenty, this ex-physicist has a penchant for prose brimming with empirical gravity. We’ll be watching vee-pee!

• Usha Alexander was a bass guitarist in a garage band until she met me. She still persists with her interest in anthropology, science, and literature, while singing soprano in a world music choir.

• Ruchira Paul, a talented painter and the founder of Accidental Blogger, has established a high bar for political, social, and literary commentary. Better steer clear of her, you left-wing ideologues and right-wing religious types!

• Dukhiram looks far less dukhi than one might imagine. When not entertaining, educating, and exhorting (as is his custom), he devises better ways of searching for needles in a haystack.

In the spirit of this mutation, I will no longer be using Shunya as my nom de plume on this blog. Happy blogging, new contributors! 

* (Ok, I don’t know anyone who says that but it’s true; else we wouldn’t be here.)