Can you imagine the torture I have been through? First I get mildly hacked …. and then one fine day, my entire data base of posts got eaten up …
Shreeman hackerji took away five years worth of posts. It was as though the ground was cut away from under my feet. Still I painfully retrieved what was lost. The last few posts disappeared, and will probably be floating around in ether along with misplaced keys, lost hankies and socks and bits and pieces of forgotten crushes and broken hearts.
It that were not enough … the Salman Rushdie thing happened and I could not vent. This made me more determined to set up blog again. My sons have advised me not to write nasty blog posts about the aforementioned Shreemanji …
I am trying, I am trying and I am trying to be nice.
Sigh … “Discretion is the better part of valour” was obviously not coined for people like me. I am territorial and this is my space. Life without “My Precccciousss” said like Golem … was hard.
But on the flip side, life without My Preccciousss made me finally finish my third novel. So something good came out of it definitely.
Feels good to be back 
welcome back
this is bad , wish you find out who this person was .. why people do such things why dont they use their brain for something constructive.
now tell me how did you recover everything .. this has scared me how do i save all my articles and blogs …
good to see you back and congrats on finishing off the novel
al lthe best and take care
Bikram, download the back up xml file and save it on your computer. Or save your posts on an alternate blog site.
Great you’re back.
I missed your posts though i do not comment usually.
post a video on youtube cussing and dissing this bugger.
and continue your quill,madame.
LOL What a wonderful idea
Welcome back Ritu!!!
Thank you, it feels good
Great to have you back!
Welcome back
Email a copy of every single post to more than one email addresses to make sure you have a copy of your material, if not the comments.
Now that is a very practical thing. I am sure it can be set up to email my posts to an alternate email id
welcome back – you were missed … and now I am off to backup my blog
Do that! That is what saved me
Welcome Back
I thought you must be completing a book Hence neglecting the blog. Third book Wow Way to go. Not sure if I have commented here before. I enjoy reading your blog and have lurked here several times. I admire your writings and you as a person. You rock lady!!
Thank you Shital. No I dont think you have commented earlier, but glad you delurked
Glad to know that all is well and phoenixritu.com is back, alive and kicking.
Here is to good times!
Thanks Abha. It took me a lot of time to re-do the blog. Seems like now I will have to promote it aggressively since I’ve lost my readership
I have been away for so long that I didn’t know of this at all.
I am so glad you are back.
As for your readership-they’ll always be with you!
welcome back! blog getting hacked and losing old posts? scary thought!!
It happened to me