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BlogAdda’s Spicy Saturday Picks – Dec. 11, ’10

Spicy SaturdayLast week three young Indians swept the Time Magazine’s first Asian essay competition. Dehradun-born Sarabjit Singh came first in the continent-level essay competition, while the joint runners-up were Gemlyn George from Tamil Nadu, New Delhi’s Rohit Pathak. The writing scene in India is fast growing and making a name for itself not only in essays but also in blogs. Indian bloggers come up with such wonderful posts and it is upto us to keep pushing them and encouraging them. Here are this week’s top blog posts from the Indian Bloggers.

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My Oldest Book and its Memories winners announced

‘Which is your oldest book and what are the memories associated with it?’. When we asked this question to the Indian Bloggers, we recieved some amazing entries and it was an awesome experience reading through all the posts. Aditi Mathur is known for her penchant of reading books and hence we requested her to judge this one. Here is what she has to say. 🙂

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Interview with Samit Basu

At the age of 24 many dream about getting their first book published, for most of them it remains a dream. At your Adda this week we have a person who dreamt big and achieved it. He got his first book published at the age of 24. It takes guts to drop out of IIM and pursue your dreams and he did just that. We welcome Samit Basu at your Adda for this interview where he speaks about his life, books, blog and much much more. Let us enter into his fantasy land. 🙂

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Bloggers Social Responsibility

A girl child is killed at your home. A child goes uneducated, parents are humiliated and a family member dies, even for a curable disease. Every minute. Every day. Every year. Yes, at your home. Your India, your home, your motherland. Humanity is being strangulated to death. It is gasping for some kindness. Some mercy. Begging to live. Don’t let it die. Let it live, to make this world a happier place to live in. Let it live, to stay alive in our hearts. Let it live, for our present and future.

The present equation is Less Love | More Fights. Let’s change this. Let’s make it More Love | Less Fights. People are fighting over small & personal issues. If you want to fight with something then fight against the social issues and eradicate it from the society.

Let’s add humanity to our festival list. Come, join hands and celebrate humanity with people who already are doing it.

UPDATE: The next step of Bloggers Social Responsibility is here. Read, Blog, Share!

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BlogAdda’s Tangy Tuesday Picks – Dec. 7 ’10

Tangy Tuesday PicksAfter the wikileaks episode, everyone is talking about ‘Free Speech’. According to Wikipedia ‘Freedom of speech is the freedom to speak freely without censorship or limitation, or both.‘ How many of you remember Chaithanya Kunte? Was it not the perfect example of ‘Free Speech’? Indian bloggers have always been vocal with their posts and our Tangy Tuesday Picks are a reflection to that. Read some amazing posts from Indian bloggers today.

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