<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- hemishthanki.com — deploys to /docker/hemishthanki/Root/sitemap.xml
     THE single sitemap for the estate. Every URL here is a CANONICAL URL:
     the About page is listed at its apex path, because that is what
     about.hemishthanki.com now canonicals to. Listing both would ask Google to
     crawl a duplicate that only points back here.
     INCLUSION RULE, and it has teeth: list only hosts that are ungated AND
     resolve. Follow the `gated` flag in shared/lib/catalog.js, NOT live status —
     holo and rothschild answer 200 today but are gated:true with lock:"optional",
     so that can flip, and a sitemap entry that starts 302-ing into the sign-in
     gate is a Search Console error.
     Excluded on purpose: every gated host; hemi + account (admin surfaces,
     already noindex); www (301 duplicate of the apex); about.hemishthanki.com
     (canonicals to /about/); googledoodle.hemishthanki.com (canonicals to
     /googledoodle/, the same arrangement as About).
     Doodle Games used to be listed cross-host, at googledoodle.hemishthanki.com/,
     which only a DOMAIN Search Console property accepts. Since it moved to the
     apex path every URL here is same-host, so Bing and strict validators take
     the whole file too. /googledoodle/ has no <lastmod> for the reason the old
     entry had none: the date only becomes true when the deploy actually runs. -->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
        xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">
  <url>
    <loc>https://hemishthanki.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-04</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://hemishthanki.com/about/</loc>
    <!-- 2026-09-05: the day the portrait was renamed and this entry's
         <image:loc> changed with it. This said 2026-09-04 for 19 days — a date
         PRECEDING the change it announces — so every Googlebot fetch of this
         file said "nothing new here" about the one URL that needed recrawling. -->
    <lastmod>2026-09-05</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://hemishthanki.com/about/img/hemish-thanki-iit-bhu-varanasi.jpg</image:loc>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://hemishthanki.com/googledoodle/</loc>
  </url>
</urlset>
