Would like to start with my sincere apology for not being able
to be in touch with my blogger friends of late.
Emergency situation on my family front kept me away from being
regular. While I was making one or two sporadic posts in between, I wish I had been
more regular than what I have been. Things are getting better on that front and
here I am.
I do remember about one of my unfinished actions and that is
on Liebster award.
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Some great things happened for me during the month of April. Yep,
exciting month it was for many reasons!!!
I wish every month would have been similar except the daily blogsJ. It is not that I did not enjoy the daily blogs
but not sure and confident if I would be able to do justice to that kind of
challenge month on month.
I got nominated for Liebster
award from some of my fellow blogging friends who I came to know during the
challenge except Nandhini. These coming on my way, in addition to getting
nominated for SunShine
award by two accomplished bloggers, were icing, cherries and what not, on
the already delivered cake I was enjoying J !!!
Am immensely grateful to the following people for considering
me worthy of the Liebster award and I would like to believe that they did it,
in letter and spirit, based on the content and not anything else.
Usha Menon @ http://eccentricgrandmum.blogspot.in/
Tom Macinnes @ http://cobourgcobbie.blogspot.in/
Carol Graham @ http://batteredhope.blogspot.ca
Additionally avid blogger and journalist, Vishal Bheroo @ http://vishalbheeroo.wordpress.com/
was kind enough to nominate me for Quintet
of Radiance Award.
I sincerely thank you - Nandhini, Ushaji, Tom, Carol and
Vishal once again for this gesture of theirs to proffer this award on me and
shower their love to my blogs on a regular manner. I am humbled by this gesticulation from them.
Now the hard part.
While there is no doubt that I have been motivated by these
nominations, I request for your apology not being able to fulfill the criteria to
accept the award, mainly due to paucity of time and hence I have taken a decision not to display the badge on
my blog.
Based on few other discussions and comments from other
blogging friends in blog sphere, I urge the blogging community to take a hard
look in the criteria part to be fulfilled. Though I do appreciate the motive
behind institutionalizing these awards in helping and motivating bloggers but
the process calls for simplification to a great extent.
I am sure I am not the first person raising these points and
do hope that these are being noticed for further consideration and due
diligence. Though over simplification might dilute the essence of the awards, I
request policy thinking in the context of the situations I am in.
Before signing-off, my sincere thanks to all my blogging
buddies across geographies and countries without whom, I am no-body here.
Friends, please continue to shower your love and support for
my blog to stand up on its own feet.
Thanking you.
