Aala re aala, Blog Mela aala re

[image courtesy Nilesh]

Important Update: Due to some confusion about the Mela schedule, the Blog Mela for this week will not be hosted at Mode C. Instead, it shall be hosted at Neelakantan's and the nomination call is already out. The Mela shall return, however, to Mode C next week, that is, after the 3rd of November. Necessary changes in the rules have been made down below. Please do check the same and sorry for the inconvenience, if any.

All right babies and babas, ladies and ladaas, it is time for the second Bharateeya Blog Mela at Mode C. For those who do not know what Blog Mela is, feast your eyes on the following links:

Blog Mela Schedule
October 15th Blog Mela at Indiagenie's
October 6th Blog Mela at Trivial Matters'
September 26th Blog Mela at Dynamic Ram's

For those who had been waiting for Blog Melas but were unable to find any editions, which were perhaps lost somewhere in the middle of the IIPM controversy that plagued the Indian blogosphere for the last few weeks, here we are, back again to regale you with the best of desi blogs, written in desi style, by desi (or non-desi) bloggers.

Right, so now that you know what BBM stands for, let me roll the red carpet for you and your nominations. The Mela will be hosted at Mode C on the weekend following November 3 and therefore, the nominations should reach me by midnight, November 3 Indian Standard Time (not stretchable, puhleaaaaaaaaze). As we wannabe managers often like to say, there are some ground rules:

• Nominations should be sent either as comments to this post or by email to nutkarsh[at]gmail[dot]com.
• Nominations should reach me latest by midnight, November 3 IST.
• The posts must either be written by Indians or be centered on India.
• The posts must be dated between October 28 and November 3.
• Nominations should be sent as permalink(s) to the individual post(s) being nominated and not as link to the entire blog. In case the permalink feature is not available or not working, the title and date of the post should do.
• Nominations can be self nominations or if you are feeling extraordinarily generous, you can nominate my posts, too (or for that matter, anyone else's)
• While you are nominating, please do take care that the entry is not on the lines of "I woke up, I brushed my teeth, bathed and went to office, worked, came back and slept". Even if it has to be on those lines, there should ideally be something interesting, novel and insightful about the way the person bathes or brushes teeth or works...