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NDTV is having an opinion poll to decide the Indian of the Year award. Votes can be casted through sms, mail or phone calls. Here is the link to the website: Indian of the Year

Now here are the nominations:

CATEGORY: LEADER

• Mayawati (Ab Dilli Door Nahi)
• Prakash Karat (Mr Unflappable)
• Manmohan Singh (The Visionary)
• LK Advani (The eternal no 2)
• A P J Abdul Kalam (People's President)

CATEGORY: SPORTS

• Viswanathan Anand (Tiger of Chennai)
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni (India's T20 Glory)
• Baichung Bhutia (Bending it like Bhutia)
• Sania Mirza (Climbing The Tennis Ranking)

CATEGORY: CINEMA

• Shahrukh Khan (Chak de India)
• Rajnikanth (The Boss)
• Shilpa Shetty (Celebrity sister)
• CHAK DE GIRLS (Women Power)
• Himesh Reshammiya (Rockstar Reshammiya)

CATEGORY: GLOBAL INDIAN

• Indira Nooyi (Fizz kid)
• Arun Sarin (Hello India)
• R K Pachauri (Weatherwise)
• Mira Nair (The Elementary Director)

CATEGORY: BUSINESS

• Tulsi Tanti (Creating Wealth out of Wind)
• Kumaramangalam Birla (Showing his Metal)
• K P Singh (Building homes for millions)
• Azim Premji (Putting innovation into IT)
• Mukesh Ambani (Fuelling growth)

CATEGORY: MUSIC

• Vishal & Shekhar (Hit pe Hit)
• Sukhwinder Singh (Chak De India)
• Pritam & Metro band (Metro)
• Sunidhi Chauhan (Mindblowing Mahiya and Sajna pe vaari jao)
• A R Rehman (Guru" of music)

CATEGORY: UNSUNG HEROES

• Irom Sharmila (Mission Manipur)
• Auto Raja (Bangalore's angel)
• Indian Soldiers (Super Heroes)

I happen to attend one of their talk show in Bangalore. From the time I saw the nominations I knew it was going to be a waste of time to attend that show. I attended that nonetheless. And it turned out to be a great experience in terms of seeing how a program (specially a talk show or a discussion) is conducted.

My votes:
Leader: [This category should be called Political Leader] Manmohan Singh (For keeping the Indian economy floating.). I strongly oppose Advani's nomination in this category.

Sports: Vishy of course. If Dhoni and Baichung can make it to this list then there should be a place for Prabodh Tirkey too. And then there is Pankaj Advani too.

Cinema: None of this. You must be kidding by giving nominations to Reshamiya and Shilpa.

Global Indian: Mr Pachauri. He has got a bigger distinction anyways.

Business: I need to go and refresh my GK to find out the special contribution of all the nominees in last year. As I see Mr DLF man has built the biggest construction company in world (Indian share market sher). So for now my vote for Mr KP Singh.

Music: You must be kidding again. Music as a category. And then too all nomination from Hindi Cinema. Grow up... There is more to music than just bollywood shit... I am really happy they did not have Mika's nomination here.

Unsung Heroes: I have my reservations against nomination for Indian Soldiers. They certainly deserve this award but then there are hundreds others who need to come in limelight too. Irom Sharmila is my choice for this award.