Traditional Knowledge, Natural Growth Contest
We've launched another contest, this time from the house of Dabur! 
Mujhe nahi mila abhi...kyunnnnnnnnn ????
may be because the distance to kolkata from the sender's location is more. 
Received the voucher 
along with the expired vouchers. 
But what is this Sodexo? 
I LOVE sodexo vouchers.... my dad gets a lot of them :P you can use them as meal passes at a lot of restaurants and eatery, they are valid at most leading outlets for shopping.. you generally have a booklet wherein you can find details of places where you can avail it... they can be availed at specific outlets and even for online shopping.. I think only Yepme or may be it was Yebhi accepts it as far as online portal is concerned... but then again that can differ also...
you get it in most corporate offices too as meal passes in your salary breakup.. :)
Thanks for the information.
I hope that I find some good place where I can use them.
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They should have given normal online vouchers
lol you will find more options and that is the only disturbing part.. sorting through the options... if you love shoppers stop or pantaloons, you're likely to find those and if you love ice creams, you should have mama mia.. i spend most of mine on those :P lol sorry you probably didn't need this much info :P
sodexo is pretty common these days...
As per that link posted by Rakhee on the Immunity thread, there are a hell lot of stuff you can buy with Sodexho coupons. The list shows both the Landmark and Crossword next to my home on the list. So I guess I would have no issues with the vouchers.
I thought this would be Flipkart voucher....Sodexo..hmm..no idea about it..never used any of them earlier ( I haven't got my GV yet ) ...
Just received from Dabur, the 1000 Rs GV, in the form of 2 sodexho couchers of 500 each valid till June 2014. Thank you.
It is accompanied by several things/offers, valid till Dec 31, 2013 , and more or less Delhi centric. Even the sodexho booklet that lists places accepting sodexho , is totally Delhi and North centric.
Just wondering why they have included all those expired offers, and is there a world outside NCR .......
Simply caus ethey had this additional voucher that they wanted to dispose off...So they r disposing it off on us this time.
The expiry date of June 2014 means that the voucher was issued in Jun 2013, hence it has offers valid only till 31 Dec.
You will have a hard time using the sodexo vouchers, just like me.
Yes, Narsimha you are right. Sodexo always does this. it happened with me in Tata wherein company will give a portion of ur salary in Sodexo coupons that will be having very limited options in market.
This time they made IB team as their victims. Just hope the coupons are good enough to use :)
No offense intended to anyone!
The expiry date of June 2014 means that the voucher was issued in Jun 2013, hence it has offers valid only till 31 Dec.
@EK they will be good to use, but there are not many takers
Narsimha..yes they are good to use and have decent takers in my city...wished some FMCG and grocery barnd like spencers, Dmart should have also included Sodexho but I am fine with what they offer..NO complains..I am happy :)
Congrats Bhavya send a snap to Ranjith 
wow..great
Thanks ND :D
Any idea when will they dispatch the prizes?
Hey I have two questions:
1) What gift vouchers are we gonna get? Is it from Dabur?
2) When will it be mailed to us?
Please let me know. Thanks!:)
1. They will probably be Flipkart vouchers.
2. Generally, it takes 1-2 months
Yaay \O/, my first contest entry and I won! Congrats everybody!! Now how do I get that voucher
Keep calm and wait for a month or two :P
@Rakhee S .. I am not sure what you are going to do now Rakhee. A huge Buffet awaits you - Remember what you said earlier -If you don't win the lal tail contest I swear I'll chew up my sandals and if you don't win one of the other major lal tail prizes, I will eat up my patiala salwar as well.
I've already eaten them up. Burp.. I'm known to keep my promises.
btw, have you seen Kamlesh Parikarath's winning post on Immune India? It's a STUNNER!
I will check it out sometime later. For the first time ever in my life, I have kind of felt dissappointed for not winning a contest Rakhee. Somehow, with all the appreciation I got for the post, I thought it deserved something. But then everybody has their own opinions.
For me your post was a hands down winner. After me your's was the only name I was hoping to find in the list.
i remember some golden words you mentioned in rakhee's thread recently --- contests are like bonus for us bloggers, donot get disheartened and keep blogging, keep rocking!
Exactly! Very well quoted ND! I was surprised to not find my name in the list too but I guess that's how life is - Unperdictable! Sweet, at the same time, BITTER! It's the second face of the coin and no matter what, you have to accept it, step on it and move forward!!!
Thanks everyone who have said good or consoling words here. Off course I will keep blogging. It will take more than a dabur contest to deter me. I am much stronger person than that LOL. For me, even the setback like being diagnosed by cancer did not last for more than few hours.
Congratulations Winners. I will have good memories of having support and love of many fellow bloggers for this contest post.. though it did not stand to win even a consolation prize. I have never had so much of good response for a blog post ever before. That means a lot.
Congratulations to all winners!!!
We were to write a blog post on...
1. Our understanding of ayurvedic and chemically processed vs synthetic products
2. Its role in a baby's early growth & development
3. We could also recount our own experiences
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Just revising the topic before reading the posts that have won. I hope they weren't just eulogies on oil or just went on and on and on about about home remedies... or were not a valid debate on ayurvedic vs synthetic products...
Do share your observations after you read them, Mr. Passey.
Please do share your observations.
In some contests you are supposed to stick to the topic. While in others, you can write whatever you want. This contest falls in the second category.
Mr Passey, that's the point. In some entries, only open admiration of the products that have nothing compulsorily to do with the topic of Ayurveda vs Chemically synthesized products is winning (my own post followed this strategy) whereas in some contests like HP and now BBC, product metions are probably not going to count much, if at all. So since there is ambiguity, why can;t the sponsors be more explicit - like say' mentioning 100 words on Lal Tail as part of the post is a must. I'm sure a lot of people lost out on prizes and are not getting a fair chance because guessing this is not easy. I myself started winning only when I adopted this 'strategy'. There is nothing wrong with this, but as in Kitchens of India, let them tell us what they want explicitly. Especially because sponsors like BBC would not want explicit product or brand praise, sponsors like Dabur and Sunsilk would want this, so how are we supposed to know?? 
Thank you Mr. Passey for bringing up this cogent point of view. But on reading some of the replies here, my incredulity at the contents of some posts is now lessening to a great deal. Thanks for clearing this up folks (@Rajnith and @Rakhee S)! I am new here and I wish I had known this 'ambiguity' based fact before It is sort of like rowing on difficult waters since some blogging platforms do not allow content that explicitly advertise third party content..
Can anyone check for me that whether I have really not won even a consolation prize......previous 2 times I had took part I had got something both time so am confused......Entries which have got the best prize are super duper hit but didn't went through all the entries of those who have won vouchers...
Mohit, feel sorry for your disappointment. After going-through all winning entries (in both Dabur contests) , I too felt that a number of very good posts did not make it to the consolation-prize list, while at least one of those present there, should not have been there.
While, as Renie has mentioned somewhere, cause of one particular very good post was taken-up with the sponsor, each and every deserving post may have been so fortunate. It might not have been humanly possible for IndiTeam to read each post and take up with the sponsor as per its merir. Especially when judging has been entrusted to the sponsor as per agreement. This arrangement of umpiring may have its fall-outs.
Its good to see that the IndiPlayers always nod respectfully to the umpire and walk back gracefully to the pavilion. Afterall, not all grounds have a third umpire with a camera.
I agree with you that the winning entries (in both contests) are super-duper, and add that the consolation prize list had many good entries too.
YAY! So happy. I won another Runners-up prize Thanks IB & Dabur!
Congrats to all the other winners!
congratzz
Congrats June! I share your excitement!
Wonderful to win with you again.
A runner's up prize is good enough to put a smile on my face :) Good Start to 2014 !!
Oops! Typo. Wondering*
I didn't write for this contest, so I can think about the results with a cool , unbiased mind.
Most of the winning entries are very deserving ones. Congrats to you all!
But why do I feel that a very large number of good posts didn't find themselves in the 1000K list whereas one ordiniary one with glaring errors of spelling and grammer did?
Do not know why my aesthetic sense is very different from that of judges....... . Am I an earthling or am I an alien from some other planet?.... Just wandering........
you are a blogger very human one
which one....give a hint
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