Thank you all for making RBSI what it is today !! Its the passion with which so many of you have participated in the discussions over here and shared your rare knowledge and interesting insights with the rest of us…that makes RBSI a fascinating place for people who love history and rare books. So much so that...many of you have cultivated a huge fan following and have become celebrities in your own right. This little experiment has slowly evolved into a community of most interesting and fascinating minds from all walks of life and from all around the world. Its gratifying to hear about so many new friendships and connections being made on RBSI among people who share a common love for rare books, art and history.

I only hope we will make more people realize that "the more we learn about history, the less we will fight for history" !

Plans are now afoot to transfer the posts and discussions on RBSI to an external website (unfortunately, no solution yet for a real-time synchronous facility with FB)…with specific 'key-word searches' to help researchers, history-buffs and students to explore further. What a storehouse of books and prints (close to 2000 of them at last count) and discussions we have created here on so many disparate topics and subjects of India…and they truly deserve to be archived for posterity.

RBSI is grateful to all its active contributors (many of whom I have referred to as 'treasures of RBSI') for sharing their knowledge on this forum and helping us broaden our perspectives on history.

Since the FB Insights indicate that we have around 2800 'daily active users' and about 6800 'monthly active users'….I have come to realize that most of the members are the silent visitors who unobtrusively browse through the contents of the RBSI page without making their presence felt.

I am highly grateful to the regular contributors of RBSI, (and there have been so many through its eventful course) for patiently sharing their views, wisdom, insights, wit, predilection, criticism and irreverence. Thank you - Asad Ahmed, Frank Gardner, Shekar Sathe, Digvijay Singh Kushwaha, Amita Roy, Nick Balmer, Muthuswamy Jayaram, Qamar Rehmani, Pulin Trivedi, Satyakam Sudershan, Raja Chandra, Sumedha Verma Ojha, Pankaj Sapkal, Philippa Waterfield, Vikram Singh, Julian Craig, Gouri Satya, Rohini Chowdhury, Yvonne Hussein Le Fort, Lynne Hadley, Sumer Chauhan, Ranajit Pal, Manish Narang, Akshay Chavan, Tejakar Jha, Ruchika Sharma, Arvind Mallya, Sushil Kumar, Deepak Ingawale, Mahadeva Sarma, Nitin Bhagwat, Arun Simha, Sunny Naradmuni,Nicholas Mathew, Francis Neelam, Paresh Terse, Jefferis Evans D'Angelis…
My apologies to those I might have missed out from this spontaneous list.
And also thanks to all those who frequently leave kind and encouraging comments on the wall.

Finally…lets remind ourselves that "there is more than one truth in history and that to learn history we must learn to unlearn too ! "

Subbiah Yadalam