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Let us start with defining ‘blog’ and ‘blogosphere’ since their meanings have changed a lot in the last one and a half decade since the first blog took birth.  What is ‘a blog’ and ‘the blogosphere’ in 2025? These days, people often refer to all types of regularly updated content as ‘blog’.  We also hear the following types of expressions from social media practitioners and influencers, something not associated with traditional 'blogging': 1. "On her Facebook blog, she narrates how she escaped unhurt in a serious road accident." 2. "He has a fashion channel on YouTube, but he puts his personal videos on his blog on YouTube." In the present discussion, we would rather stick to the traditional definition of blogging: regularly updating web content. Within this, we would limit ourselves to blogs that are 'text+' websites: websites that have text as the base, with or without images, audio, and video as supplementary content.  Further, since it is difficu...

The 15th annual edition of the Directory of Best Indian Blogs is before you. This listing of top Indian blogs, in English, is curated manually, based on the quality of content, regularity and overall contribution to the knowledge on the web. We have been publishing the Directory every year, without fail, since 2010. We have been releasing our observations on the Indian Blogosphere over the years. (We confine our observations to English and Hindi blogs only, and do not go beyond the normal text+ blogs, thus excluding vlogs or podcasts.) Their links can be found in the side menu of the Indian Top Blogs. This year too, we are sharing our observations in another post: Our observations on Indian blogs in 2025 . We are sure that if you are interested in how Indian bloggers are evolving or what you could do to improve the impact of your own blog, you will find that post relevant and useful.  Regarding our conditions for including a blog in one of the many top blogs lists, you could visit ...

 As you would know, we have been bringing out the Directory of Best Indian Blogs for the last 14 years, in May-June every year.  The next edition will be the 15th, and will - as always - have blogs manually curated for their quality, regularity and commitment to enriching the web/ blogosphere.  If you have a blog to suggest, kindly write to kp.nd.2008@gmail.com. The listing is totally free, without any monetary or commercial consideration. We include personal, collective, organizational and corporate blogs if they meet our criteria for listing in the blog directory . You can visit the current edition of the main blog directory, and also two other compilations of top Indian blogs at the links below:  Directory of Best Indian Blogs Directory of Best Hindi Blogs Hindi web magazines, collective blogs and aggregators

We have released the 14th edition of the Directory of Best Hindi Blogs, on 28th October, 2024. The blog listing contains top over hundred blogs in Hindi, chosen for their content, regularity and other parameters that show their commitment to blogging. Since 2022, we have been adding commercial blogs as well as more than one blog per blogger. In picking up blog-like portals/ websites of newspapers and television channels, we have included only such websites in the present blog listing that have content curated by the blogger as if they were maintaining a proper blogs. Websites maintained by other newspapers, web magazines and television channels will be included in the listing of blog aggregators, etc, linked below.  Our observations about the Hindi blogosphere remain as we gave them in detail in the post published while releasing the previous edition of the blog directory. So, instead of repeating the same here, we have given link to that post below; you may like to visit that in c...

All blogs are not equal, and blogs in all niches do not perform the same way. That was a routine statement, you might say.  You are right, but that carries an important reminder for bloggers who want to earn money from their blog, which is a niche blog- a blog in a specific area such as beauty, travel, photography, cooking or health. Without wasting time, we shall first discuss the peculiarities of health blogs, and then come to the specific actions we should take so that our blog shines and we are able to earn from the blog, if that is our goal. In describing how health and fitness blogs differ from broad-category blogs, I will focus on blogs maintained by knowledgeable persons in this field. We shall not talk about blogs/ websites maintained by product companies and bloggers whose primary focus is product promotion rather than sharing experiences, giving tips, etc. The world of health and fitness blogs - Small blogs in health and fitness niche have very tough competition from in...

 We are delighted to release the 14th annual edition of the Directory of Best Indian Blogs. As you would know, this listing of top English blogs in India is curated manually, based on quality of content, regularity and overall contribution to knowledge on the web. We have been publishing the Directory every year, without fail, since 2010. A blog, essentially, is a diary of regularly generated content. Starting with being a regularly updated collection of individual ruminations and information, it has evolved so much that almost everything that gets published on the web is casually called a 'blog'. We have discussed the evolution of blogging in other posts, and, therefore, would keep our current observations relevant to the present list of top Indian blogs. One big constraint with us has been to know the regularity of updation of a website/ blog. While most bloggers have an archive gadget on the blog itself, some have a way to let the visitors know how old a particular post is a...

 The next edition (14th) of the directory of best Indian blogs will be released on 15th July.  The inclusion of a blog in the directory is completely free and merit-based. This earlier post tells about the blog selection criteria:  submit blog for Indian blog directory If you know of a good blog on India or by an Indian, kindly share that with us at this email address:  kp.nd.2008@gmail.com  Directory of Best Indian Blogs