Genesis: A trip down memory lane

Annals of Community Health (pISSN: 2347-5455, eISSN: 2347-5714) is now a peer reviewed, in-dexed print journal with an online presence focusing on the speciality of Community Medicine and its allied subjects. Being able to write the above sentence spreads a feeling of warmth. Well, let us go on "Another journal? You've got to be kidding me, everybody is starting one now a days!" was a popular response when word of Annals of Community Health was spread. I can assure you that you will realise differently when you read this "brief history" of the journal. This is not like most re-cent "publication portals" you have encountered. This informally written, in detail recollection, addressing you, the reader will take you for a trip down my memory lane. I personally feel that it is time to connect with you, the reader, than to be politically correct. The world as we know is changing my friends, and I realise that patience to read jargon, especially of history has waned. This is a time when a book is picked to read because of a good cover and judgement is given reading ab-stracts, a time when everything you do sticks, gets quantified and comes back to haunt you, a time when privacy is no longer re-spected. The electronic revolution has changed things permanently although only time can tell its outcome. Well, enough of my musings; let me take you through the path that lead to this book being held in your hands today.