Indibloggies ~ Indian Weblog Awards

Meet the IB-06 Jury

Dear readers, we are delighted to introduce to you the Jury for Indiblogies 2006. It’s been our endeavour to bring new faces each year to this distinguished panel and we welcome them all. Apart from the fact they they would be devoting their time to tiresome effort of looking at the nominated blogs and nominating them, they have chosen to stay away from the competition adding the glaze of credibility to Indibloggies and I am thankful to them. I hope their stint at Indibloggies gives them an opportunity to highlight unsung blogs and helps them gain a bird’s eye view of the growing Indiblogdom.

Here goes the list:

• Aparna Ray is a qualitative research consultant based in Kolkata. Passionate about limericks, she serves up a daily dose of Newsmericks. Aparna also blogs in Bangla at Khola Janala and helps bridge the world of Bangla blogs on Global Voices and Desipundit.
• Atul Arora is a web programmer based in Philadelphia. He has been blogging since 2004. His Hindi blogs are Rojnamcha and Life in a HOV lane. He also has a photoblog Saat Samundar. He is also an occasional contributor at Hindini and Nirantar.
• Badri Seshadri currently runs a book publishing company in Chennai. He occasionally writes for some Tamil magazines and discusses cricket in Tamil TV channels. In his earlier avatar, he co-founded Cricinfo and ran its operations globally and in India for a long time. Badri maintains the following blogs: Thoughts in Tamil, a Tamil blog, Nothing Frivolous. Only Serious and Kirikket, a group blog on the similar sounding sport in Tamil.
• Benny Francis is Thiruvananthapuram based linguist and blogger.
• Jai Arjun Singh is a Delhi-based freelance writer. His blog Jabberwock, that also won in the humanities Indiblog category at the Indibloggies 2005 event, features some of his writings on books and films, as well as other whimsical thoughts on life, leisure and the pursuit of unhappiness.
• Mrugesh Shah is a Gujarat based Teacher and Author. He also maintains Gujarati website Read Gujarati.
• M S Sriram is a visiting faculty at IIM, Bangalore and a Professor at IIM, Ahemdabad. His blog Kannade-kathe won the best Indic Blog (Kannada) award at Indibloggies 2005.
• Mugamoodi (pseudonym) lives in Los Angeles. His Blog, where he covers everything under the sun, won Best Indic blog award (Tamil) in 2005. He is an audiophile with interests including Photography and automobiles. He also participates in a group blog Wiki Pasanga, a how-stuff-works kinda blog in Tamil.
• Muralidhar Jupudi works for SAMBA, Riyadh and keeps a sharp eye on Telugu blogs.
• Naina Redhu is a graphic designer and photographer. She also actively blogs about the design industry and design processes, online business networking and innovation. She is currently also exploring fine art and blogs about the process.
• Neha Viswanathan works in the areas of research, communication and strategy. She spends far too much time in a day reading blogs. (If she was paid a rupee for every blog she read in a day, she’d be a very rich woman.) Other than contributing to Desipundit, she blogs at Within / Without and Global Voices. Apart from having an opinion on everything, she dabbles in poetry.
• Nikhil Marathe writes at his Marathi Blog Disamaji Kahitari.
• Nitin Pai blogs at The Acorn, an expression of The Indian National Interest. Since September 2003, he has been going on about geopolitics, strategic affairs and public policy from an Indian perspective with a sprinkling of levity thrown in once in a while.
• Ojas is currently situated in Gurgaon and works for a KPO in the domain of Intellectual Property. He occasionally writes at his personal blogs Yesterday Once More and Srujan Anand (Marathi). He loves to trek, read books, watch birds, listen to music sleep! Calligraphy is another special interest.
• Patrix is the founder of DesiPundit and has been blogging since June 2003. His personal blog, Nerve Endings Firing Away and a visit to BlogNashville, conference on blogging inspired him to start DesiPundit. In the offline world, he is a doctoral student at Texas A&M majoring in Urban Planning.
• Rezwan is a Berlin based blogger from neighbouring country Bangladesh. He started blogging in April 2003. In his blog The third world view he portrays Bangladesh and Bangladeshis beyond the typical headlines you see in news. His hobbies include theatre, music, movies and reading other than blogging. Rezwan can speak Bangla, English & German and knows a bit of Hindi & French too.
• Rohit aka Confused lives in Florida and is a doctoral student in Health Services Research. He discovered blogging through online debating forums and now blogs with the passion of a neo-convert. He is interested in Indian politics, current affairs and of course in news which can be best characterised as just plain weird. He blogs at Retributions and Life is a street car named Desire.
• Selvakumar is a Science enthusiast. His claim, that he is a hominid made out of star dust that coalesced some 5 billion years ago around a small and rather average star, is still being verified by the Indian Scientists
• Shashi Singh has a long association with media in its various forms including television news, television fiction, newspaper, radio, mobile VAS & internet with recognized strengths in content creation, management, conceptualization, UI and editorial. His Hindi blog Mumbai Blogs was chosen the Best Indic Blog in Indibloggies 2005. Shashi is keen on popularising his mother tongue Bhojpuri on the internet and maintains and a Bhojpuri website Litti Chokha .
• Shivam Vij is a journalist with the Tehelka weekly newspaper in Delhi. He has been blogging since April 2005 and was one of the winners of the 2005 Indibloggies. He blogs at National Highway and is also one of the initiators of the aggregator Blogbharti.
• Srijith K is a Bangalore based Software Engineer and blogs at http://sreejithk.blogspot.com.
• Veeven is a business design associate by profession. He blogs in Telugu about Firefox and Wikipedia. He is an active member of TeluguBlog group and also contributes to Telugu Wikipedia. Veeven is the creator of Koodali, a popular Telugu blog aggregator, and Lekhini, a tool used to write blogs and mails in Telugu.

January 25th, 2007 | Announcements