Announcing The Indic Bloggers Awards! Upto Rs 1 Lakh In Prizes! 

Swarajya, in association with Indic Academy, is happy to announce the annual Indic Blogger Awards.

The award aims to identify and encourage the otherwise uncelebrated blogging community in India. While choosing the nominees, we will look for bloggers who have passionately and consistently taken up specific causes and written regularly over a period of at least twelve months on their blogs.

In order to qualify for the nominations, bloggers must have written at least six entries/posts in the last twelve months and they may nominate any three posts for the Swarajya panel to evaluate their blog(s)..

The jury will look for entries that have clarity in writing and thought, good presentation and consistency while retaining the informality and joie de vivre that so deeply characterises the blogging spirit. We will also be platform neutral – bloggers may have used any digital blogging medium, including, for example, Instagram. Bloggers in all major Indian languages are welcome to nominate their blogs for the awards.

The jury consists of

Advaita Kala - Author and screenwriter.

Anand Ranganathan - A molecular biologist notorious for his infatuation with the Mysorepak, a Twitter celebrity, novelist and a very perspicious writer.

Dr V Anantha Nageswaran - One of India’s top columnists, Dr Anantha Nageswaran is currently an independent financial markets consultant based in Singapore

Madhu Kishwar - Until recently senior most professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS). Madhu Kishwar is the Director of the Indic Studies Project. She is also the founder of Manushi - A Journal about Women and Society.

R Jagannathan - Editorial Director, Swarajya.

Gayatri Jayaraman - Journalist and Author.

The Swarajya-Indic Academy Blogger Award will be given in the following categories:

Social Issues: For a blog on social issues that is written with rigour and nuance. We will look for themes such as social reform, gender issues, etc.

Political Analysis: Sharp and factual commentary on political affairs, especially in the Indian context. The writings could be on national and state politics, local body governance issues, technology, e-governance and others.

Economics: For bloggers who write on economic developments, their effect on society and government and are able to condense sophisticated public policy issues into lucid, accessible prose.

Culture: Blogs that contain articulate and engaging commentary on arts, film, literature, religion, Indology, etc. Blogs on humour, movies, music and food can be nominated in this category.

The award for each of these categories is a cash prize of Rs 25,000/-

Deadline to send in your submissions: 15 July 2016. Please use the form here to send in your nominations.

About Indic Academy

Indic Academy is a school for thinkers who aim to preserve, protect and promote Indic civilizational thought, culture and values. It seeks to act as an enabler for these thinkers to discover, nurture and express their potential.

Mission 2020 by 2020:

Indic Academy has set itself a target of acting as an enabler to 2020 thinkers by the year 2020. For achieving its goals, Indic Academy classifies thinkers into two kinds (a) Indic Scholars and (b) Indic Public Intellectuals. By the year 2020, Indic Academy aims to enable:

• Enrollment of and research by 1010 students and scholars.
• Single or multi step transformation of 1010 Public Intellectuals from social media activism to blogging, writing columns & books or becoming PhDs or Self made scholars in their chosen area of interest.