Hello, everybody! Here it is - the first blog mela of the year in a new & improved format.
It is a close race since we have only three nominees this week -
First and foremost is Jayakrishnan Nair with his defense of NRIs to John Laxmi of SAJA who berates NRIs and their contributions to the development of India.
Secondly, there is Suruj Dutta who turns a critical eye towards the recent peace talks between India and Pakistan, and woders if there can be peace in our time.
Lastly, there is Ravikiran’s “The Death of a Law”, in which Ravi describes how a little law with good intentions was changed over and over again to “make it better”, in the process killing the original thought process behind the law and making it something it was not supposed to be.
Check out all the three posts and the vote on them starting tomorrow - the winner will get a $10 Amazon gift certificate :)
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It is not letting me vote more than once. Is this a bug or a feature?:mad:
Posted by: Ravikiran at January 16, 2004 12:21 AM
That’s gross injustice, it is not letting me take back my vote eityher :(
Posted by: Debashish at January 16, 2004 12:25 AM
Ravi, it is a bug. I tried voting many times and I too got the same error message.
Posted by: JK at January 16, 2004 12:50 AM
Yet another bug. Its not letting me vote for all the three.
Posted by: Ramnath at January 16, 2004 3:17 AM
LOL, you guys! You can only vote once a day - so let the ballot-stuffing begin for today ;)
Posted by: Shanti at January 16, 2004 9:29 AM
there is no bug, it lets me vote for NO ONE..;-)
Posted by: Manish at January 16, 2004 12:33 PM
Uh-oh, Manish - you cannot let secrets like that out ;)
Posted by: Shanti at January 16, 2004 12:50 PM
I vote for Yazad.
What, he’s not been counted? What kind of mela is this anyway?
I will stuff the ballots in multiple ways based on how I’m feeling on the day. I think the order today is alphabetical.
Posted by: MadMan at January 16, 2004 12:58 PM
MadMan, that sounds like a strategy - what about picking random numbers between 1 & 3? :tongue3:
Posted by: Shanti at January 16, 2004 1:53 PM
So umm… I’m not allowed to enter my name when I vote, so how will the person who wins know that they are forever indebted to me :nice: (and their other followers alike) for helping them get their hands on a piece of literature that might actually change their lives? :blush:
Posted by: livin'simple at January 16, 2004 7:07 PM
LOL, livin’ simple - the good thing about secret ballot is that regardless of who you vote for, you can always tell the winner it was you who made the difference ;)
Posted by: Shanti at January 17, 2004 9:10 AM
Keeping the voting open till the end of the month is unfair to people like me, who have major stakes in this battle. It is getting difficult to keep up with Ravi in this rigging battle.
I suggest that the voting be open only for a week.
Posted by: JK at January 19, 2004 11:59 AM
LOL, JK - considering you are slightly ahead of the game right now, I think I can see why you want voting open only for a week ;) Maybe we should do that from next month.
Posted by: Shanti at January 19, 2004 1:24 PM
Boo!
JK is ahead by 5 votes. Time for some negative campaigning
Posted by: Ravikiran at January 20, 2004 4:24 AM
I would like to nominate my blog 123suds.blogspot.com for february awards nomination - my blog focusses on emerging trends, thoughts ideas that can shape our future life.
Posted by: sadagopan at February 9, 2004 3:09 AM
Sadagopan, I am sorry I was not too clear in the rules - you have to nominate a single post from your blog that was made between the dates mentioned above - give me the permalink to the post you want to nominate. Thanks!!
Posted by: Shanti at February 9, 2004 10:23 AM