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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 ...

 As you would know, we have been bringing out the Directory of Best Indian Blogs for the last 14 years, in May-June every year.  The next edition will be the 15th, and will - as always - have blogs manually curated for their quality, regularity and commitment to enriching the web/ blogosphere.  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 visit the current edition of the main blog directory, and also two other compilations of top Indian blogs at the links below:  Directory of Best Indian Blogs Directory of Best Hindi Blogs Hindi web magazines, collective blogs and aggregators