Finest Posts-may 2016 Nominations

Dear All,

I am a big fan of AR Rahman, not because I love his music so much but because he is the icon of youth and being his fan is considered as the unmistakable hallmark of youthful spirit. At my age, it is the easiest way to youthfulness! When young people are around, I invariably mumble a Rahman song, ‘Maiyya, maiyya’. It has been penned by another youthful old man! I never really bothered to decipher the meaning of ‘maiyya, maiyya’ till now. As all of you know, I am a rambler and ramblers do not need to invest their ramblings with any meaning.


I am now in the process of announcing the opening of nominations for May 2016. As is my wont, I look around for some interesting titbits about May and you know what I found? That May was named after ‘Maia’, a Greek Goddess who was identified with the Roman Goddess of Fertility called Bona Dea. Instantly I could connect the Greek Goddess Maia with Mallika Sherawat gyrating for the Rahman number ‘Maiyya, maiyya’. Maia is the Goddess of Fertility and will hopefully preside over the fertile imagination of our members across the Forum. There will be hopefully plenty of posts worthy of nomination. It is possible that there will be an encore of May 2013 when we received a whopping 41 nominations!


The month of April 2016 has been a gratifying one. We have had plenty of nominations and from forums as varied as Gardening and the newly introduced Media. We may have to think of a suitable competition for Media and the like as they do not fit into our framework.


Chennai is sizzling now and we do not need a stove to make an omelette. Just the bonnet of a car parked under the open Sun will do! But the heat hardly bothers me as I have plenty of cool nominations to read. I do hope you will continue to scout around for nominations and keep me cool and engaged!


We are now into the revised schedule. From now on, the nomination threads will be opened on the first of every month.


The FP Team
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Please do note that posts and threads from the sub-forums Express Cafe, Forward Messages & Jokes, Online Games & Puzzles are not for nomination.

To familiarize yourselves with FP and its nominating process, please check this linkbelow:
Finest Posts of IL
Each member is allowed to nominate up to 4 posts only.
This ensures that each of us have a hand in deciding the winning post as we will filter our choice more closely, thus making the winner more significant.

The nominations will be closed on the last day of every month. Simultaneously, the nomination thread for the following month will be opened on the First day of that month.

In case of nominating FBs, please remember to add a link to the FB and not to the original post.

The following gives step-wise on adding links to your nominations –

- To add a link to the original post that you are nominating:
How to add a "Link" in my post?


- To add a link to the FB that you are nominating:
http://www.indusladies.com/forums/fa....html#post6653

 

My dear Viji
Thank you for your first reply. The whole of today, there was no power in my area and it came just an hour back. I did not want to take the risk of waiting till tomorrow to post the Nomination thread. If there is a power shut down again like today, I would not be able to keep up the schedule. Hence I posted it today itself.
Sri

 

My dear Viji
It is not in our scheme of things to accept nominations of threads written by the children of our members. I regret my inability to accept this nomination.
Sri