Whaddya know-I am a Superior Scribbler
Because I am in the process of updating my CV, I’ve had the chance to get all nostalgic about the awards I won in college. Like the one I won for general knowledge, totally by fluke.
It was and is rare for me to win a prize in a competition or to do well in a competitive exam. I am more non-competitive than I would like to be, otherwise I would have applied myself far more in school.
Anyway, it was the first year of my BA in Delhi and I was aimlessly wandering down the corridor, when a lecturer called me into a classroom where others were sitting and asked if I’d like to do a general knowledge quiz for fun. So I sat down at a desk, did the quiz and wandered off and forgot all about it.
Months later a senior was packing things in gift wrapping paper in the hostel. I learned they were prizes.
One of them’s yours, she said.
“What, ” I asked, “did I do?”
Turned out there was a prize given for general knowledge every year and you had to do that quiz for it. I hadn’t even read the prize list on the bulletin board. The senior informed that there was much amusement because a first year had won the prize.
Now those happy old days when awards for randomly tested knowledge were distributed and even older days when prizes for dressing up like a witch (my favourite fancy dress costume) are long gone, one is especially delighted that one’s readers and blog friends still keeps one’s ego intact.
Lavanya (Desigirl) has kindly awarded me the Superior Scribbler Award. Given that not much scribbling (save for the regular whines I post to let off steam) has happened here of late, let alone of the superior kind, I feel I don’ deserve it. Thanks DG. I accept humbly, and want to pass it on.
I must pass the award on to five people so here goes:
Miapan. Write more, woman.
Spirited Seeker has just started blogging but I know she can write really well. Best of luck on your blogging journey Seeker and may it continue, for all our sakes!
Flaneur Urbaniterecords London through the lens of her camera and her words in all its gloriousness and grittiness. Her blog, Urban Legends, has just celebrated a birthday.
Coolkarni and N A Keerthi’s Rasayana on Indian music. This is a new blog, but there’s already much to chew upon. It’s a good place for some excellent free downloads too!
Vidya Have awarded her before and she doesn’t do blog awards if I remember right, but I don’t care, am giving it to her anyway, she doesn’t have to do the tag. She must be read and read and read, because she truly is superior.
The rules of the award (to be followed by the awardees) are:
* Each Superior Scribbler must in turn pass The Award on to 5 most-deserving Bloggy Friends.
* Each Superior Scribbler must link to the author & the name of the blog from whom he/she has received The Award.
* Each Superior Scribbler must display The Award on his/her blog, and link to This Post, which explains The Award.
* Each Blogger who wins The Superior Scribbler Award must visit this post and add his/her name to Mr. Linky List. That way, we’ll be able to keep up-to-date on everyone who receives This Prestigious Honor!*
*Each Superior Scribbler must post these rules on his/her blog.
Thanks for the award – It is sweeter because the Logo seems inspired by my favourite
Angel from Giovanni Guareschi’s Don Camillo Series.
–http://home.comcast.net/~doncamillo/
And yes I will Post details of my 5 favourite bloggers
Thanks Uttara for giving me this award! I don’t know what more to say. I find so many people on the internet who write and evoke feelings the way Hemingway, Hardy, George Elliot, Sylvia Plath, Tagore, Manto, Ghalib etc etc do, that I am really surprised that I too have found praise!
I hope to read all the blog sites you have awarded, and get some more insight into life.
Gosh, Uttara, thank you very much indeed! I never realized my blog had readers, forget an award! This is so encouraging
:) Muchas Gracias.
I pass it on to .
Arun – Who always makes me think deeply about Music.
http://sunson.wordpress.com/
Ramakriya
http://neelanjana.wordpress.com/2009/10/
I take so much inspiration from him on all matters pertaining to Kannada and Pure Karnatic Music
Ram – Such a fine Drummer
http://ramsabode.wordpress.com/
Erode Nagaraj
I may not have met Edmund Hillary , But I am happy to Know Erode .
The sheer mention of Erode …..gets me the strength of 1000 elephants to drive away my blues
http://ramsabode.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/erode-nagaraj/
And to my good friend V Govindan , whose magnum opus will be something that I will cherish till my last breath.
http://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.com/
thank you kulkarni sir..
now only seeing this…
Wow, thanks so much, Uttara!
Very humbled indeed. And really glad you like my blog enough to do this! Will try and get around to pssing it over soon. Thanks again!
*passing it on*, I meant. The perils of being an impatient typer. “Spirited” Scribbler indeed! Hahaha.
There is a very good new blogger called Spirited Seeker. And the two of you are “superior scribblers!”
Sorry sorry sorry!
Sigh. Poor Eyesight. Old Age. A general propensity for impatience. Sleep deprivation.
At least I can do something about the latter. Good night
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Yours bumblingly, etc.
Flaneurbanite.
Don’t worry, I suffer from all of the above plus amnesia these days!
Such high praise, Thank you Uttara.. And did you just say she doesn’t do blog awards? She just did..;)
Of course you are!