India witnesses its first blogging conference in Mumbai

India witnesses its first blogging conference in Mumbai

FPJ BureauUpdated: Saturday, June 01, 2019, 04:04 PM IST
India witnesses its first blogging conference in Mumbai

BlogAdda.com organized the first blogging conference & Awards Ceremony in India, WIN ‘14 on Sunday, 9 February 2014 at The Courtyard by Marriott, Mumbai. It was an event that celebrated blogging in every sense of the word with an audience of 200 bloggers, social media experts and prominent speakers.

The spectacular Shekhar Kapur, a blogger himself, graced this event with his presence. Shekhar Kapur spoke to the audience of bloggers for almost an hour talking about the change blogging and social media have brought in the society. “What social media has done is, it has sucked inertia out of the system”, said Shekhar, showcasing his clarity of thought.

There were excellent insightful sessions that revolved around writing and blogging by renowned published authors like Ravi Subramanian and Kiran Manral. Kavi Arasu’s talk about his blogging journey and Anuradha Goyal’s story about being a travel blogger left the audience spellbound. The resolute Anaggh Desai, witty Manu Prasad and proficient Lakshmipathy Bhat spoke about blogging and the relation it shared with brands and advertising today. An interactive session discussing the interests of the youth with a panel consisting of Ekalavya Bhattacharya, Vasundhara Das and Karl Gomes was a huge success.

Anil P. spoke about how pictures play an important role in storytelling on a blog. Arjun Ravi, a music journalist and co-founder of Nh7.in spoke very precisely about the blogging scenario in India today including his journey as a blogger. Amit Agarwal, India’s most prolific technology blogger shared his blogging success story at WIN ‘14 .

The funny Jamshed Rajan had a special stand up comedy session for the bloggers and had them in splits. Ace food blogger Kalyan Karmakar had an engaging food blogging workshop for food bloggers while Abhigyan Jha from JayHind. TV spoke about creating premium video content for blogs. The entire event was amazingly hosted by none other than the entertaining, Ashwin Mushran.

The best blogs from all over India in 16 categories were recognized & awarded by Blogadda.com at WIN ‘14. Winners included Dr. Roshan Radhakrishnan in the creative writing category and Roxanne D’souza in the fashion category with their blogs rated the best in India.