Traditional Knowledge, Natural Growth Contest

congrats...hope u dont have any issues with the judgings anymore

Congrats Canary

congrats

Congrats BK! Party Time!

Thank you :) :)

yaye party \ :D /

Congrats!!!

Thank you, Aditya :)

Congrats!

congrats!

Congratulations ma'am :)

Congrats, Anita!

Thanks ND, BK & SK

Hey Anita.. We won! :D Congrats!

Thanks! Yes we did, June

 By the way Anita, any clue what this voucher wouold be all about? Is it a Dabur voucher?

yes...winning is super sweet...i'm yet to go anywhere with the KOI voucher...its valid till march'14..so hopefully will utilize it by then.

you are a blogger  very human one

Hah Ha. I get your point, ND, ha ha

Yes ND. Most of the winning posts are great. However, I was surprised to see one which I thought could not have made it even to the bottom given the fact that it contained serious errors of language in almost every line. (I am not suffering from Sour Grape Syndrome as I did not write for this contest),. Was just wondering.............

which one....give a hint

congratzz

Thanks ND :)

Congrats June! I share your excitement!

Wonderful to win with you again.

Same here, Anita 

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.

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..

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. 

Keep calm and wait for a month or two :P

The voucher code will be sent to your email. 

1. They will probably be Flipkart vouchers.

2. Generally, it takes 1-2 months

Thanks Ranjith