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Blog Mela Announcement

Published by Yazad Jal October 22nd, 2004 in Web World

The next Bharteeya Blog Mela will be hosted here on October 28.

For the trivia inclined, I started blogging on October 28. A few famous people started their lives (Bill Gates, Julia Roberts, my kid brother) and some lives ended (John Locke). The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on October 28 and it’s the Greek National Day as well! More on wikipedia. There is also the small matter of a lunar eclipse (sadly not visible in India).

The regular directions and rules are below. Do have a dekho at my recent mela musings as well.

The Rules

Posts must either be made by Indians or must focus on India or Indians.
Send in permalinks to the individual blog entries only, not just the URL. If the permalink is not working, send me the title and date of the blog entry.
You can nominate your own posts or someone else's.
You can submit any type of posts except personal journal entries.

Directions for nominating entries for the Mela

Drop it as a comment to this post. (No, don’t send me a mail. Just a comment here)
The entries have to be dated between October 21-27.
Please send your nominations to me latest by October 28, 8 pm IST.

The mela should be up by 9 pm on October 28.

For more on the Blog Mela, here’s an old piece by on JK’s blog. Some of the earlier melas are archived here. Shanti, do update the archive when you get the time!

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1 JK Oct 24th, 2004 at 6:11 am

Yazad, Could you change the link to this page http://varnam.org/blog/archives/2003/03/blog_mela_answe.html

Somehow the page with the old stylesheet is still around.
2 MadMan Oct 25th, 2004 at 7:36 pm

Wow, not even a single nomination?
3 Sameer Oct 25th, 2004 at 8:16 pm

Sanctity of passwords, by Nilesh Chaudhari.

Dina mehta’s ‘Pop!Tech - first thoughts‘, which talks about the lack of Indian (and other international) perspectives in such conferences as Pop!Tech.
4 Atul Arora Oct 25th, 2004 at 8:33 pm

Mujhe bhi kuch kehana hai

(Naked URL converted into a link by Yazad)
5 Jitendra Chaudhary Oct 25th, 2004 at 9:04 pm

My Nomination to this week’s Blog mela is “MOHALLE KA RAVAN DAHAN” ,in hindi.

link
6 Nilu Oct 25th, 2004 at 9:34 pm

Any of my posts in that period ;)
7 Yazad Oct 25th, 2004 at 10:39 pm

MadMan, spoke too soon eh?

Nilu, nominate a post. I will browse through the blogosphere, but there’s no guarantee I’d notice every blog!

JK, the link change has been made.
8 MadMan Oct 26th, 2004 at 1:40 am

What can I say… when MadMan speaks, people listen. ;)
9 Karan Oct 26th, 2004 at 5:56 am

I nominate myself, for a Fat Waiters entry.

http://www.karanmisra.com/2004/10/why-waiters-should-be-fat.htm
10 Radha Jegadeesan Oct 26th, 2004 at 10:35 am

Hello, I am only a lurker on these blogs since many months, but I just read this morning one posting I would like to nominate here, by Dilip Desouza. Please see Sand in the Eyes.

(I am sorry I do not know what Permalink is, but his full blog is available at Death Ends Fun).

Yours sincerely,
Radha J.
11 swami Oct 26th, 2004 at 8:06 pm

I nominate the following post…

http://www.yazadjal.com/mt/archives/000424.html
12 Etchumi Oct 26th, 2004 at 9:19 pm

http://tilotamma.blogspot.com/2004/10/incognito-with-krishnadevaraya.html#comments
I nominate Taj alternatives:
13 Atul Arora Oct 27th, 2004 at 1:30 am

परफेक्ट एनआरआई होने का लिटमस टेस्ट

(Link modified by Yazad)
14 Srini Oct 27th, 2004 at 5:30 pm

I nominate this post by my friend, Suhail. His blog is suhailkassim.blogspot.com .

In fact most of his posts are excellent and am sure many more would qualify

http://suhailkassim.blogspot.com/2004/08/stories-of-mumbai-locals.html
15 Akshaya Oct 27th, 2004 at 8:25 pm

Well, i wrote many posts before that duration which i would have liked to nominate, but..

here is one post-
http://braveheart-blog.blogspot.com/2004/10/another-short-story.html

This is a short story written by me. Purely Fiction.
Akshaya
16 Ashish Hanwadikar Oct 28th, 2004 at 10:19 am

I nominate this post.
17 Adam Crouch Oct 28th, 2004 at 10:43 am

I have a new post up about India and outsourcing. I look at the recent article in CFO that said the era of outsourcing to India is over, and essentially say that the author is full of crap :P

The post is here

Thanks!
18 Mahesh Shantaram Oct 28th, 2004 at 11:01 am

Yazad, thanks for prodding me. I hope you consider my latest post, Not 18 Till I Die, for the Mela.

I wanted to send the shorter Filter Coffee version but Blogger is having the hiccups. What an auspicious way to make a comeback. Hmph!
19 anup shukla Oct 28th, 2004 at 2:52 pm

TheluwaNomination of Blog of Indra Awasthi
20 Suhit Anantula Oct 28th, 2004 at 3:01 pm

Yazad:

I would like to nominate my post.

NGOs stop World Bank from doing Good
http://www.worldisgreen.com/2004/10/23/ngos-stop-world-bank-from-doing-good/

Suhit
21 Suhit Anantula Oct 28th, 2004 at 3:05 pm

Another nomination. USe what you like

An Economist, Middlemen, Moral Values and a illogical analysis.

http://www.worldisgreen.com/2004/10/01/economist-middlemen-moral-values-and-a-illogical-analysis/
22 Suhit Anantula Oct 28th, 2004 at 3:06 pm

Yazad:

This is a post by Atanu Dey

The Unbearable Silliness of Loving One’s Enemy
http://www.deeshaa.org/archives/2004/10/19/index.html#the_unbearable_silliness_of_loving_ones_enemy

Suhit
23 anup shukla Oct 28th, 2004 at 3:08 pm

This is my Nomination-Fursatia
24 JK Oct 28th, 2004 at 8:47 pm

Here are my nominations

India Impressions
Sizing up Than Shwe
The Times on Caste in the Diaspora
25 Akshaya Oct 29th, 2004 at 2:33 pm

What happened to this mela?
where are the results?
Akshaya
26 ganesh Oct 30th, 2004 at 8:53 pm

How about a blog for stocks nominate this at http://www.rupya.com
27 Yazad Oct 30th, 2004 at 10:48 pm

Ganesh, The mela is already up.

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