And the nominees are..

Ladies and gentlemen! Thanks a zillion for your contribution to this effort. The Nominations phase is over and here are the lucky ones. Congratulations people! Please do read the note at the bottom of this post. Give us some time to arrange the polls (it came to us that no free poll site allows having multiple polls, www.blogpoll.com could not be selected because the polls are also visible on their site. We ultimately have settled for sparklit.com's excellent free service). Meanwhile you can send in more nominations or request to strike-out any in-eligible ones, till December 6, 2003. The voting shall commense on December 7, 2003.

IndiBlog of the year:

• Ashification (http://ashforyou.rediffblogs.com)
• Jivha-the Tongue (http://www.jivha.com/blog/)
• Journeywoman (http://journeywoman.rediffblogs.com/) (Nomination withdrawn)
• Smorgasbord (http://www.smorgasbord.rediffblogs.com/)
• The Maanga (http://www.nilakantanrs.blogspot.com/)
• Unganisha.org(http://unganisha.org/)

Best ArtsMedia IndiBlog:

• Lazy Geek ! (http://www.lazygeek.net/)
• (http://www.niceguyhemanth.com/)
• Teakada (http://www.teakada.com/)
• Mdeii life(http://mdeii.blogspot.com/)

Best Sports IndiBlog:

• Cricket weblog ( http://rightho.com/cwc2003/)

Best Technology IndiBlog:

• Rajesh Jain ( http://emergic.org)
• Gigaom (http://gigaom.com/)
• Webjives (www.webjives.com)
• Kiruba Shanker (http://www.kiruba.com/)

Best IndiBlog directory:

• http://india.rightho.com/
• Kamat's Blog Portal (http://www.kamat.org/community)
• Indian Bloggers (http://indianbloggers.blogspot.com/)

Indiblog with the best tagline*:

• From the banks of the Ganges, to a treestand in Illinois, defending freedom with a pen and a .357 Magnum. (The kolkata Libertarian, http://www.palit.com/tkl.asp)
• When I paint my masterpiece (http://melodrama.rediffblogs.com/)
• ...a loose, forked, pseudo-secular tail-piece! (Jivha-the Tongue, http://www.jivha.com/blog/)

Best topical IndiBlog:

• India Economy Watch (Group blog, http://indiaeconomywatch.blogspot.com/)
• Technology & Business (Rajesh Jain, http://www.emergic.org/)
• Indian Media (Mediaah, http://mediaah.blogspot.com)
• Travelogue (Journeywoman, http://journeywoman.rediffblogs.com/) (Nomination withdrawn)

Best designed IndiBlog:

• MuseLog( http://muselog.net)
• Amit(http://www.netahoy.org/mt/)
• Arnab's World(http://www.arnab.org/blog/)
• Nilesh (http://nilesh.org/weblog/)
• Mahesh(http://www.techrose.org/filtercoffee/)
• Smitha(http://www.ecomancer.net/weblog/)

Most humorous Indiblog:

• http://www.nilakantanrs.blogspot.com/
• http://www.zrox.net/Diary/
• http://alpha.blogdrive.com/
• Ravages

Best New Indiblog:

• Odyssey of a Princess ( http://pavithra.rediffblogs.com)
• http://www.ramdhanyk.com
• The Acorn (http://www.paifamily.com/opinion/)
• Charu (http://peekintomymind.blogspot.com/)

Best Hindi Indiblog:

• Alok (http://9211.blogspot.com)

Best Regional Indiblog:

• Venkataramanan (http://www.tamillinux.org/venkat/myblog/) -Tamil
• Badri (http://thoughtsintamil.blogspot.com/) - Tamil
• Kamat (http://www.kamat.com/econtent/kannada_blog/) - Kannada

IndiBlog Lifetime achievement:

• Anil Dash (http://www.dashes.com/anil/)
• Anita Bora (http://www.anitabora.com/blog/)

Best Male IndiBlogger:

• Aashish (http://ashforyou.rediffblogs.com)
• Patrix (http://patrix.rediffblogs.com)
• Mahesh (http://www.techrose.org)
• Gandalf (http://gandalfwhite.rediffblogs.com/)
• Chakra's blog (http://www.chakkarapani.com/blogs)

Best Female IndiBlogger:

• Dragon (http://thesixthartist.blogspot.com/)
• Austereseeker (http://austereseeker.rediffblogs.com)
• Gorgeous! (http://gorgeous.blogdrive.com)
• http://alpha.blogdrive.com
• Melodrama (http://melodrama.rediffblogs.com/)
• Vaijayanthi (http://vj13.blogspot.com/)
• Shobha (http://differentstrokes.blogspot.com/)

Best IndiPhotoBlog:

• http://www.rajeshkrishnamurthy.com/photoblog
• http://fotu.rediffblogs.com/
• Shyamal
• Sanzen's photo blog

Note: Some of the blogs which were not considered are: Ashifications for best tagline* (reason: no tagline found), Dr.Mani for any category (reason: we are not selling anything here), Kingsley for best Tech blog (please tell me if this was appropritae to be considered) and Jivha for best topical blog. If you find the URL/Title/Details wrong or feel the blog does not qualify for the category or if the blog contains any objectionable or unpalatable stuff do let us know through comments to this post or email us at indibloggies@myway.com.