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 The 16th edition of the Directory of Best Indian Blogs has been released today. As you would know, this listing of top Indian blogs is curated manually, based on the quality of content, regularity and overall contribution to the knowledge on the web. We have been publishing the Directory every year, without fail, since 2010. By clicking the link or icon given below, you can visit the latest edition of the Indian top blog list: Directory of Best Indian Blogs We have been releasing our observations on the Indian Blogosphere over the years. Their links can be found in the side menu of the Indian Top Blogs. This year too, we are sharing our observations in another post: Our observations on Indian blogs in 2026 .  Regarding the conditions for including a blog in one of the many top blogs lists, you could visit this post: Guidelines for blog submission .  If you are owner of a blog that meets the selection criteria for including a blog in any of the lists issued by Indian Top...

[Before you go further: This document discusses the Indian blogosphere consisting of English blogs in traditional formats , not image/ video sharing, social networking and instant messaging web entities. Observations on Hindi blog scene are published separately.]   A. OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATUS OF THE INDIAN BLOGOSPHERE When we started compiling the Directory of Best Indian Blogs , way back in 2010, blogging was supposed to be the ultimate tool in the hands of people- the one that gave the common man a voice beyond newspapers, magazines and TV channels. Unlike the mainstream media (newspapers, magazines, and television channels), blogs allowed two-way exchange of views, and this, in fact, had made some media-watchers believe that blogs would one day dominate the media scene. Social networking and media sharing platforms were gaining popularity, but blogs were taken as more substantive than other social media. Those in middle and higher ages would recall that early blogs were...

 Th e 16th edition of the Directory of Best Indian Blogs will be out on 31th July, 2026. As you would know, we have been regularly updating the Directory for the last 15+ years, with the new edition being published in the middle of the year.  The next edition will, as always, have blogs manually curated for their quality, regularity and commitment to enriching the web/ blogosphere.  We are glad to share that though social networking and image/ video sharing platforms have swamped the web 2.0 space, traditional blogs hold their sway in their own ways. We shall talk about our observations in greater detail when we come out with the 16th edition of the listing of the top Indian blogs.  If you have a blog to suggest, kindly write to kp.nd.2008@gmail.com. The listing is totally free, without any monetary or commercial consideration. We include personal, collective, organizational and corporate blogs if they meet our criteria for listing in the blog directory . You can vis...

[You can peruse the discussion in English after Hindi discussion.] हिंदी के श्रेष्ठ ब्लॉगों (top Hindi blogs) की डायरेक्टरी का 15वां संस्करण 15 सितम्बर,2025 को ज़ारी किया जा रहा है. इसमें 80 ब्लॉग सम्मिलित हैं. इन्हें ब्लॉग के URL के मुख्य भाग के अनुक्रम में लगाया गया है.  आपको याद दिला दें कि 2022 से हमने इस डायरेक्टरी में दो परिवर्तन किये हैं. एक तो किसी भी ब्लॉगर के एक से अधिक ब्लॉग को सम्मिलित किया जा रहा है, बशर्ते वो हमारे पैमाने में खरा उतरते हो. दूसरा ये कि व्यावसायिक ब्लॉगों को भी सम्मिलित किया जा रहा है. संकलन में वो ब्लॉग भी हैं जो न्यूज़ पोर्टल्स के अंदर एक ब्लॉग की तरह अपनी जगह बनाए हुए हैं, जैसे कि किसी अख़बार के स्तंभकार (columnist) का अपना ब्लॉग.  हम साथ ही हिंदी के अख़बारों, पत्रिकाओं व वेब पत्रिकाओं, ब्लॉग समूहकों (aggregators) और न्यूज़ पोर्टल्स में ब्लॉग डैशबोर्ड या विशेष स्तम्भों का संकलन भी अपडेट कर रहे हैं. जो ब्लॉग, चाहे वो व्यक्तिगत ब्लॉग ही क्यों न हों, समाचार-पत्रों की तरह लगातार अपडेट होते हैं, उन्हें भी डायरेक्टरी के बदले इस संकलन में जोड़ा जा रहा...

  Dear Hindi bloggers and visitors, Compilation of the 2025 edition of the  Directory of Best Hindi Blogs  is in the last phase. Hope to see your blog in the Directory, if it is being maintained well enough to be considered a top Hindi blog . If you know of a good Hindi blog that has not been included in the existing edition of the blog listing, please suggest that to us. The directory will be released on September 15, 2025. मित्रो, हिंदी के सर्वश्रेष्ठ ब्लॉगों की डायरेक्टरी  के 2025 संस्करण के संकलन का काम लगभग संपन्न हो चुका है. आशा है, आपका ब्लॉग इसमें संम्मिलित होगा। हाँ, इसके लिए यह ज़रूरी है कि उसमें अच्छे पोस्ट लगातार प्रकाशित हो रहे हों. अगर उत्तम गुणवत्ता का ब्लॉग सुझाना हो जो इस डायरेक्टरी के 2024 संस्करण में नहीं है तो ऐसा शीघ्र करने का कष्ट करें .   डायरेक्टरी 15 सितंबर 2025 को प्रकाशित होगी. 

Let us start with defining ‘blog’ and ‘blogosphere’ since their meanings have changed a lot in the last one and a half decade since the first blog took birth.  What is ‘a blog’ and ‘the blogosphere’ in 2025? These days, people often refer to all types of regularly updated content as ‘blog’.  We also hear the following types of expressions from social media practitioners and influencers, something not associated with traditional 'blogging': 1. "On her Facebook blog, she narrates how she escaped unhurt in a serious road accident." 2. "He has a fashion channel on YouTube, but he puts his personal videos on his blog on YouTube." In the present discussion, we would rather stick to the traditional definition of blogging: regularly updating web content. Within this, we would limit ourselves to blogs that are 'text+' websites: websites that have text as the base, with or without images, audio, and video as supplementary content.  Further, since it is difficu...

The 15th annual edition of the Directory of Best Indian Blogs is before you. This listing of top Indian blogs, in English, is curated manually, based on the quality of content, regularity and overall contribution to the knowledge on the web. We have been publishing the Directory every year, without fail, since 2010. We have been releasing our observations on the Indian Blogosphere over the years. (We confine our observations to English and Hindi blogs only, and do not go beyond the normal text+ blogs, thus excluding vlogs or podcasts.) Their links can be found in the side menu of the Indian Top Blogs. This year too, we are sharing our observations in another post: Our observations on Indian blogs in 2025 . We are sure that if you are interested in how Indian bloggers are evolving or what you could do to improve the impact of your own blog, you will find that post relevant and useful.  Regarding our conditions for including a blog in one of the many top blogs lists, you could visit ...