“The 30th Blog Mela”:http://www.vinod.com/blog/News/BlogMela30.html is up at Vinod’s place

“The 29th Blog Mela”:http://www.madhoo.com/archives/002899.php#002899 is up at Dancing with the Dogs.

“Mahesh Shantaram”:http://www.techrose.org/filtercoffee/archives/000101.html is a very creative person. Look at how he has presented the “28th Blog Mela”:http://www.techrose.org/filtercoffee/mela28/. This is what Dave Barry would call “Shock and Awwwwww”:http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/6700918.htm.

The “27th Blog Mela”:http://www.jivha.com/blog/archives/000426.html is up at Jivha’s place. A lot of nominations this time. The next one will be hosted by “Mahesh Shantaram”:http://techrose.org/filtercoffee/
Shanti has created a permanent URL for the Blog Mela. So bookmark “http://realwomenonline.com/blogmela”:http://realwomenonline.com/blogmela.

This week, the “26th Blog Mela”:http://supersam5.blogspot.com/2003_08_24_supersam5_archive.html#106216827395513831 is hosted by Sameer, the Opti Mystic. As usual, great posts.

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This week the Blog Mela is split into two parts. This is the non-patriotic part of the Blog Mela. The Patriotic one is hosted at “Dancing with the Dogs”:http://www.madhoo.com
Guru Subramanyam doesn’t want to “Push the Fizz Away”:http://www.lazygeek.net/2003_08_01_lazygeek_archive.html#106076932048709059, while Ravikiran has more on “Coke and Pepsi”:http://www.ravikiran.com/?RequestId=319
Smorgasbord talks about “Free Enterprise”:http://smorgasbord.rediffblogs.com/2003_10_08_smorgasbord_archive.html#1060818792
Ratheesh has a review of the new Aparna Sen movie “Mrs and Mr. Iyer”:http://www.livejournal.com/~ratheesh (Aug 10th)
That’s it for this week.

We have reached the 25th Blog Mela. Since this coincides with the Indian Independence Day, we will be having two Blog Mela’s. “Shanti”:http://www.madhoo.com/archives/002725.php#002725 will be hosting the patriotic version, with blog entries related to Indian Independence. Here at varnam, we will be hosting the regular blog mela with entries related to rest of the world both on Aug 15th. So please send in your entries as soon as possible, either as a comment to this post, or by e-mail to jk at sulekha.com.

This week’s “Bharateeya Blog Mela”:http://www.yazadjal.com/mt/archives/000038.html is up at Yazad Jal’s place and guess who is sharing the Blogger of the week title ?.
The next Blog Mela is a special patriotic mela, where we hope to highlight India’s achievements and bring out unknown people and events responsible for us getting Independence. To see a sample of that please visit “here”:http://www.madhoo.com/archives/cat_indian_independence.php and “here”:https://varnam.org/archives/cat_indian_independence.html.

Gene Expression has posted the 23rd edition of Bharateeya Blog Mela. We still don’t have a volunteer for hosting the 24th blog mela.

Been busy at work. Please read the “Blog Mela no 21”:http://gauravsabnis.blogspot.com/2003_07_01_gauravsabnis_archive.html#105827709172166339 hosted by Gaurav. The next one will be hosted by “Shamit Bagchi”:http://shamitbagchi.blogspot.com/2003_07_01_shamitbagchi_archive.html#105785599649529752.