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Update: After this post, the Directory has been updated in January 2021 and the next edition is coming out in June 2021. The latest list of top Indian blogs in the Directory can be seen in the link. We are already on the job of checking Indian blogs in our database and those received after December 2019. The next edition of the Directory will come out on 30th May, 2020, corona or no corona. If you want to suggest a top quality blog by an Indian or on India, do contact us as kp.nd.2008@gmail.com with the URL of the blog. Please ensure that you maintain the blog in good shape, publish good content and keep updating it. We do not charge anything nor do we want you to reciprocate the listing in any way. In listing a blog in the Directory, we are not swayed by your 'success' or how much money you make from the blog. If you want more about our conditions for listing, please visit this link: submitting a blog to India's best blog directories .

Let's have a look at these two blogs and see how success in blogging need not be just for making money and how we can use the free blogging tools for making a little contribution to the society we live in. Well, this little post is not on how to become a social entrepreneur or a social activist. It is for illustrating that blogging for a cause need not cost money and that it can be used for supporting society in small ways without spending energy on design, SEO etc.  These blogs are small in resource use but are big in resources. Both of them are on the free Blogger platform and no effort had been made to even customize the basic theme. Yet, these blogs are contributing their might behind the bloggers towards achieving their goals.  Anaarkali - The saga of Bhil Adivasi Indigenous People http://anar-kali.blogspot.in/ Rahul Banerjee mostly chronicles the saga of tribal populations though he sometimes digresses to areas not related with it, on this Blogger blog. Calli...

You cannot avoid mention of this book when you are talking about blogging in 2020. The Manual is perhaps the first and only such work on blogging - dealing exhaustively with all aspects of blogging: history, concepts, legalities, tips and what not. The book has been written by Manoj Pandey, an Indian media personality and social media watcher. This is the second edition of the book. Mr Pandey has written another book, The Manual of Social Media, with similar treatment to the topic. He maintains a blog, SocialLogging , in which he carries information and advice on social media, particularly blogging. The term sociallogging seems to have been coined by him. Produced below is the book blurb. The Manual of Blogging is a treatise on blogging - the online activity that now encompasses the entire social media and is growing in newer forms year after year.        Though even writing small posts on micro-blogging sites and putting videos on video-sharing s...

Like in earlier years, we are updating the Directory of Best Indian Blogs in December to include top  Indian blogs in English that have come to our notice since May when we released the 9th edition of the Directory. We thank hundreds of bloggers who have recommended their or others' good blogs to us. As you would know, we include blogs in the Directory in a very objective way, and without any financial consideration or asking the blogger for backlinks in return. Plus, we cannot include blogs that are poor in quality, especially in content, and those pushing copy-pasted or inappropriate content. Therefore, out of the new blogs that we have examined only a few get a place in the Directory. During the mid-term review, we also check the existing blogs in the Directory for a major deterioration in regularity and a few other parameters. That has, like in the previous years, led to a few erstwhile good blogs dropping from the Directory. The following are the new blogs in the Direct...

This page is maintained as an archive. For the latest list of Hindi magazines online, web magazines and aggregators , please visit the linked page. यह पोस्ट पुरानी जानकारी को सँजोने के उद्देश्य से हटाया नहीं गया है। हिन्दी में  ऑनलाइन  पत्रिकाओं, वेब मैगजीन और समूहक की अद्यतन लिस्ट ऊपर दिए लिंक पर देख सकते हैं।   The Indian blogging scene is seeing a more marked change as compared to its English counterpart. To a great extent, this is due to these characteristics of Hindi blogging: 1. English blogging had much more time to grow and mature before it was marginalized by social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Starting in 1994, English blogging reached its pinnacle sometime in 2005-8 and then its pre-eminence went down. Hindi blogging started much later but Hindi users adopted social networking almost simultaneously with English users. 2. English users have adopted professional blogging on a large scale. Hindi bloggers have remained personal blogge...

We bring you the list of top beauty and fashion blogs in India. Part of this list comes from the latest edition of the Directory of Best Indian Blogs and part from new discoveries by us and includes blogs that are outstanding and yet cannot be included in that directory. In India, even in the heydays of blogging, there were not many bloggers writing on beauty and fashion. However, in the last few years, a large number of good fashion bloggers have emerged. Some of them are reported to be earning good money too. This list contains the best among Indian beauty and fashion blogs (of course, we might have missed a few despite our best efforts to find good Indian blogs in these niches). The blogs listed here focus on beauty and/or fashion. Many blogs have come up in recent years, which deal with lifestyle topics beyond beauty and fashion. You can see such blogs in another listing: Top Indian lifestyle blogs . List of top Indian beauty and fashion blogs bbeautilicious - Be Beautili...

A good number of photographers who have taken up photography as business have a website where they promote themselves. That holds good generally for photographers who have some offline presence, e.g. a shop.  However, not many Indian photographers maintain a blog. Does that mean, photographers do have a website but not a blog? Yes, most photographers' websites have a business front, where they talk of p hotography services, their rates, portfolios, etc. On the other hand, a photography blog focuses on photography as a subject and passion: it showcases photographs, photo-features and photo-stories, discusses the profession, shares tips, talks about gadgetry and so on. The blog may also sell photographs and photography services, but that comes as a natural offshoot.  While only some photographers maintain stand-alone blogs, many have their 'blogs' on Instagram and Pinterest,  places buzzing with visual content. Many photographers have tried their hands with photo-sha...