Thread: Indian of the Year 2008

Its time for awards again and its the NDTV Indian of the Year 2008 Awards this time, which is being waited by many people. The event is going to be held in New Delhi at Hotel Taj on January 17th.
The event will include many celebrities from India, and to make the event much better this year there are seven categories. The nominations for the awards are as follows:

Politics
Dr Manmohan Singh
L K Advani
Mayawati
Sheila Dixit
Shivraj Chauhan

Sports
Abhinav Bindra
V Anand
Mahendra S Dhoni
Saina Nehwal
Vijender Singh
Jeev Milkha Singh

Business
Deepak Parekh
Ratan Tata
Mukesh Ambani
K V Kamath

Cinema
Aamir Khan
Naseeruddin Shah
Prasoon Joshi
Akshay Kumar
Katrina Kaif

Unsung Heros
G Madhavan Nair & ISRO Team
Jean Dreze
Prakash & Mandakini Amte

Arts & Culture
M F Hussain
Kiran Seth
Subodh Gupta
Arvind Adiga

Would nt it be better to scrap the politics award ??

hey how about IBB member of the year ??

we can select 10 nominies and then vote
wat do u say people ?

Actually they should change the award from "Indian of the year"
to "North Indian of the year".

Just have to get V. Anand out of the list.

-F

Originally Posted by farce

Actually they should change the award from "Indian of the year"
to "North Indian of the year".
-F

:lol:

Originally Posted by ShAdOwCoN

Would nt it be better to scrap the politics award ??

For politics, its the best of the worst.

lol....r we suppose to select one from each field....tht wud b easier...than selecting one from the whole list.....wud b difficult as each ones got their own importance in their field....!

Originally Posted by sb21pro

hey how about IBB member of the year ??

we can select 10 nominies and then vote
wat do u say people ?

he he very good idea, the will have to sign a bond with Admin for 10 years

Originally Posted by aashaka_gandhi

lol....r we suppose to select one from each field....tht wud b easier...than selecting one from the whole list.....wud b difficult as each ones got their own importance in their field....!

i think it is one from each category!

ahhh than it can be done....!!! easy job1!

ok guys here are the results:

Leader of the year: Dr Manmohan Singh

Sportsman of the Year: V Anand

Entertainer of the Year: Rajnikanth

Global Indian of the Year: Dr R K Pachauri

Businessman of the Year: Mukesh Ambani

Musician of the Year: A R Rehman

entertainer - Rajnikanth.....Naaah!

I see no list of the nominations for "entertainer of the year"