Debut Indian Writers Month – Readathon 2
Guidelines | For Participating Bloggers | For Readers of the Tales Pensieve | For Writers of the contesting books
That time of the year when the Swadeshi movement of Indian writing (as we call it on the Pensieve) is back.
6-months after we had the 1st Debut Indian Writers Month, the month long celebration of first time Indian writing makes a comeback with exciting twists and a new pattern. This time around, for the 1st time, we are opening up the challenge to all book bloggers who love reading Indian fiction or non- fiction.
So for the whole month of May 2013, we invite reviews of the first book of a writer of Indian origin. We also invite author interviews, guest posts by debuting authors or any other stuff that you have on your blogs to promote our writers.
There will be some method to this exciting madness we will be having the whole month, here you go:
Guidelines:
1. Start participating by commenting in the box below – Tell us your name, your blog’s URL & the names of the books you will be reviewing (you can keep adding the names as you go too)
2. As you put up the review on your blog either leave the link here in the comment box or link this page somewhere on your review, so we can go back, read it and add it here.
3. We will maintain a table of all the participating reviews here, on this page.
4. All through the month we will also promote all the participating reviews and other posts though our social media pages.
5. As we move towards the end of the month, we will have an exciting poll about the participating books and of course we will celebrate the best ones.
Rules:
1. Anyone who reviews books on their blogs/ websites are welcome to join the challenge.
2. The idea is to read as many new Indian writers as you can so there is no cap on how many reviews you can submit; the minimum is one (1) after that the more the merrier.
3. Over lapping of reviews is allowed though not encouraged i.e if a participant blogger has already submitted or has pledged to submit(on this page) the review of a particular book during May 2013 then other participants can still read & review the same book.
4. All the books reviews submitted should have been read & reviewed in May 2013 only. Similarly the author interviews, guest posts and any other posts being linked here should have been uploaded on your blog/ site in May 2013 only.
Participating Bloggers:
For you exclusively Read, Review and Rock. We have on-board 3 avid book lovers and pro reviewers who constitute our judging panel for the *Best Review of this challenge. (Meet the judging panel here) Out of all the reviews submitted on this page for this challenge, I will pick 10 best reviews and the 3 judges will pick the best review off the 10. And our ever gracious sponsors will make it all the more special for the winner reviewer by sending over something special (surprise!)
And a public demand prize!
Of all the participating reviews, the review with the highest Facebook Likes on the review page will win Sumukh Naik’s philosophical fantasy fiction debut (click on the book image to know more about the book)
SuperSonic Reader of the Month: To the most enthusiastic participating book reviewer!! Simply put the reviewer with the highest number of book reviews against their name in the table below bags this one – a special prize for your reading table from The Pensieve. Go on, push the pedal. R.E.A.D.
Need I say more. Read more, Review more and Rock all the more!
Readers of The Tales Pensieve:
The deal is simpler for you guys. I will be reviewing 5 books between 1st and 31st May,2013. Each review will be accompanied with a question. Answer the question and if we love your answer, you win these two beauties. So be the Super Reader Winner this May 2013.
Click on these links, answer any or all questions & these books could very well be sitting on your table:
What did you do drastically different on 21.12.12?
If you can take away one power from human beings to lessen crime which one will it be & why?
What are Pigeons symbols of, for you? Except peace.
Writers of the contesting books:
My reviews will not be part of the Best Review contest but following the norm every month here for Debut Indian Writers Challenge, this special month the writer whose book will be my favorite of the lot will be the Superstar WordMaverick of the Month.
So it is a summer party for readers, writers and reviewers on The Tales Pensieve this May.
With this I declare this challenge open from May 1, 2013 and
a special thanks to the exclusive sponsors of this celebration of Indian writing
Participating Bloggers:
| Blogger | Books | Debuting Writer | Reviews |
| Reshmy Pillai | 2012 Nights Murder in Amravati Arjuna The Homing Pigeons The Secrets of the Dark |
Vipul Rikhi Sharath Komarraju Anuja Chandramouli Sid Bahri Arka Chakrabarti |
Here Here Here Here Here |
| Aditie Banerjee | The Homing Pigeons Tell A Thousand Lies |
Sid Bahri Rasana Atreya |
Here Here |
| Pooja | Nick of Time Thundergod Age of Hiblisk |
Komal Mehta Rajiv G Menon Sumukh Naik |
Here |
| Nimi Vashi | |||
| Apurv Verma | Oh Shit Not Again Dreams in Prussian Blue Right fit Wrong shoe Krishna’s Konfessions The Immortals of Meluha |
Mandar Kokate Paritosh Uttam Varsha Dixit Smita Jain Amish |
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| Leo | Yet Another SE Untruly Yours The Secrets of the Dark An Excursion of Insight Sahyadris to Hindukush Toke When Strangers Meet Arty Facts Chained The Karachi Deception The Great Indian Novel Arjuna It Can’t Be You Two Fates |
Simon Saha Smita Shetty Arka Chakrabarti Harsh Agarwal Aneesh Gokhale Jugal Mody K. Hari Kumar Ankita Kapoor Mehek Bassi Shatrujeet Nath Shashi Tharoor Anuja Chandramouli Prem Rao Judy Balan |
Here Here Here Here Here Here Here Here Here Here Here |
| Muhammad Ashik | |||
| Anupama K. Mazumder | Toke MBA is not about Money, Blazer, Arrogance |
Jugal Mody Krishna Kranthi |
Here Here |
| Priyanka Roy Banerjee | Arjuna | Anuja Chandramouli | Here |
| Swati Murti | |||
| SRS | |||
| Lady Nimue | |||
| Bhawana Bhowmik | |||
| Subramanyam K.V. | The Karachi Deception | Shatrujeet Nath | |
| D.D.S | The Homing Pigeons Toke Ten shades of Life The Secrets of the Dark |
Sid Bahri Jugal Mody Nethra A Arka Chakrabarti |
Here Here Here Here |
| Arvind Passey | Melancholic Delight Life is always aimless The homing pigeons One & a half wife |
Tista Ray Ratnadip Acharya Sid Bahri Meghna Pant |
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| Geetanjali Kaul | Fida -e- Lucknow The Thespian Life and films of Dilip Kumar |
Parveen Talha Urmila Lanba |
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| Siddharth Gupta | The Homing Pigeons The Secrets of The Dark Toke |
Sid Bahri Arka Chakrabarti Jugal Mody |
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| Sundeep | The Homing Pigeons The Secrets of The Dark Arty Facts When Strangers Meet 3 on a bed |
Sid Bahri Arka Chakrabarti Ankita Kapoor K. Hari Kumar Sarmistha Maiti & Rajdeep Paul |
Here Here Here Here Here |
| Syed Amir Bashir | The Wildings | Nilanjana Roy | |
| Samarpita | The Secrets of the Dark Smart Phones Dumb People? Amreekandesi When Strangers Meet Foreign Arty Facts Arjuna D: Ten Years. Two Lives. One Cafe. Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls Polka Dots, Pony Tails and Purple Pouts |
Arka Chakrabarti Parthajeet Sarma Atulya Mahajan K. Hari Kumar Sonora Jha Ankita Kapoor Anuja Chandrmouli Aniruddha Mahale Anirban Bose Amrita Anand Nayak |
Here Here Here Here Here Here Here Here Here Here |
| MBA Is Not About Money, Blazer, Arrogance The Slim Punjabi Law of Averages: A Hilarious Love Story-Filmi Ishtyle |
Krishna KranthiHarmeet Kshitish Padhy |
Here | |
| Dola | The Immortals of Meluha | Amish | |
| Manjulika Pramod | Smart Phones Dumb people? When Strangers Meet The Homing Pigeons Offside An excursion of Insight |
Parthajeet Sarma K. Hari Kumar Sid Bahri Kiran Vijayan Harsh Agarwal |
Here Here Here |
| Charulatha Jain | When Strangers Meet | K. Hari Kumar | Here |
| Sangita | Immortals of Meluha | Amish | Here |
| Mrugesh | The Virgins | Siddharth Tripathi | Here |
| Pramesh Agarwal | Toke | Jugal Mody | |
| Suhail Mathur | The Dance of Death | Manna Bahadur | Here |
As promised here is the poll:
31 Books. 52 Book Reviews!
We have all had such an exciting May 2013 reading all these debut Indian books. Let’s extend out the fun some more and vote for the best of them.
The polling is restricted to the book bloggers who contributed the 52 reviews to the contest.
The voting link and book cover pictures are here, in case you don’t remember what the book/s looks like.
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The Top 10 reviews of the Month, one of which will take the crown of The Best Review. (the order is no indication of the ranking of the reviews):
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Public Demand Prize:
The winner of the prize is Vinay Ravindranath for 58 likes each on his following book reviews – the highest amongst all the participating book reviews in this contest. He wins a copy of Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore (edition I).
http://abookwormsmusing.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/book-review-when-strangers-meet-by-hari-kumar/
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SuperSonic Reader of the Month:
Goes to Vinay Ravindranath for participating with the highest number of book reviews – 14 Indian debut books read & reviewed in the month of May 2013. He wins a copy of The Complete Adventures of Feluda (Volume 1) by Satyajit Ray.
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Best Review of the Month:
Is the review of The Dance of Death written by Suhail Mathur. It was the last submission of the reading challenge – the 52nd review and is also the only review on the blog. We hope to see more reviews from the talented reviewer. He wins a copy each of The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh, Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil and Fasting, Feating by Anita Desai.
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Super Reader-Winner of the Month:
Is Priyanka Roy Banerjee for her mind-blowing answer to a question asked on a debut book’s review this month. She wins a copy of 50 Shades of Grey by EL James and The Diary of a Social Butterfly by Moni Mohsin.
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*The decision of the judges will be final.