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Detailed observations on Indian blogging in English

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...continued from the previous post on the release of the listing of topmost Indian Blogs... [The present post, published in June 2011 relates to examining over 5k Indian English blogs in the last six months, manually, to come out with a distilled list of top Indian blogs.] --------- Well, the task of ranking blogs for quality was enormous. Consider four of us giving marks to each blog on each of the many criteria, mixing marks given by each member, filtering blogs based on these criteria, examining the remaining blogs again and screening them for more stringent criteria... Even after this big exercise, we are sure that many will find fault with our ranking of top Indian blogs into Platinum, Gold and Excellent blog categories.  Content quality: We keep this as the top criterion for selecting a blog in the top blogs list and then ranking it higher within the listing. Content quality is a very subjective concept but we boiled it down to such clear criteria: quality of language, error-
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Submit guest post to Top Blogs

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Updated: January 2022 After rejecting most guest posts only because the creators submit posts without doing homework, we are still open to accepting guest posts. However, please note that we are constrained to decline or reject guest posts if we find them to be of the following nature: routine offer that seems to have been sent to dozens of others generic post that looks copy-pasted or with no deep knowledge or experience of the subject irrelevant post post with inappropriate content post forcing us to accept links that are not too relevant and are obviously commercial We had to remove two posts that we had put on Top Blogs after careful editing and value addition: one was forcing us to insert certain links, and the other had published a similar post on another website (we discovered that later). After that, we have become even more circumspect when we receive stock queries for guest posting.  The present post will help in clarifying what we expect on guest posts. Why a guest post on
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India's best literature blogs 2023 [also other great book resources]

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Updated on 26/03/2023 We have been bringing out a list of best literature blogs in India, in English, for the last 9 years.  The present list includes the best literature blogs in 2023,which are maintained by individual bloggers or their enterprises. There are many other good literary blogs that we know of, but they could not be included as they were not regular in posting.  Indian English blogging, like other online formats of expression and socialization, is constantly undergoing changes. New, especially young, bloggers now create professional blogs as they no longer need blogging for their personal social networking needs. For personal shares and networking, they prefer instant platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and WhatsApp. In India, much of the blogging on literature in local languages still remains hobby-centric, not professional.  One area in which bloggers of Indian languages beat literary bloggers in English is classic and popular literature . The literature
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