Indibloggies: felicitations
The Indibloggies 2008 results are out, and several favorites [including some good friends] have won in their respective categories.
The big winner is Arnab, whose Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind takes the palm in both ‘best indiblog’ and ‘most humorous’ categories. Icing on the cake: the blog is now a Hall of Famer — which, like Amit Varma’s entry into the Hall this year, is great news for the rest of us since it means we don’t have to compete with Arnab here on 
Ramesh Srivats, another good friend, wins the ‘microblog’ award. But naturally — he is my personal port of call for the news of the day, served up with a twist of irony. And oh yes, Gaurav Mishra — another friend, another daily read — wins in the ‘business’ category.
Great to see the breadth of the winning slate, actually — blogging in India is gradually moving from dilettante activity to serious discourse, and how good is that?!
I have been regularly following your’s, Amit’s and Arnab’s blog….well two of them are in the hall of fame and I sincerely believe you are due…
Hard luck this time Prem….I was rooting for you.
No issues, mate — this is for 2008, and frankly my blogging that year didn’t deserve awards. half the time I was away, including a straight 3-month lay off; the blog had major formatting and other issues that forced a migration… being nominated for that year came as a surprise. Amit and Arnab are brilliant bloggers, easily the best in the country. To ‘lose’ to them is no catastrophe
I voted for both arnab and ramesh srivats in the categories they were nominated in. son of bosey seems to be a very interesting blog too… do you happen to know anand ramachandran too prem?
he writes on cricinfo for their page 2 section. i’ve found him hilarious.
Yeah, Anand is a good friend. and even more funny in real life
Thanks for the felicitations Prem.
Glad you got it, mate — hugely deserved, both the win and the Hall of Fame entry.
Fake IPL Player won the sports catagory…. Something to take note about…
Well I follow both arnab and amit and obviously yours too… I was thinking that arnab will get most humourous blog award and you the best blog… Well hard luck… but u dont have competition from arnab any more…
Cheers
*LOL* Manan, I threw that bit about the competition in there as a joke. If I have to bank on the high quality bloggers like Amit, Arnab etc being quarantined from competition before I can win, then it’s not an award I’d particularly care for.
Thank you, Prem. Surprised and delighted that Gauravonomics is a daily read.
Eh? Oh come on, surely you knew! Congrats, mate — richly deserved award for a very fulfilling blog.
Just Curious …how much is the prize money?