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Miscellaneous: Wishing all Rambhaiyyas a very Happy New Year

Rambhai wishes all Rambhaiyyas a very happy new year. We have compiled together in our final newsletter in year 2008, what was best on Rambhai this year. Enjoy reading the best of Rambhai in 2008.
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IndiaShining: Team Rambhai wishes all Rambhaiyyas a very Happy Diwali


As Rambhai community moves from strength to strength, we wish to wish all our sincere Rambhaiyyas a very "Happy Diwali" and very special "Thank you" for making Rambhai.com such a nice place to spend time with a hot cup of chai. No matter whether one is looking to vent his anger on politicians or police or one is simply looking for wallpapers for his desktop, Rambhai has become the place to be as covered by various newspapers. Keep going Rambhaiyyas, Team Rambhai wishes each one of you a very Happy Diwali and a prosperous new year.
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Miscellaneous: Winners - India 61st year of Independence and Rambhai Anniversary Celebrations.

Congratulations J2imu and Denny for winning the Second anniversary contest at Rambhai. You guys just rocked this place with more than 6000 points scored between you two. 72 published stories and each one of them of of quality. Congrats to you both once again. Please send your mailing address to rambhai@rambhai.com so that we can send you the T-shirts.

It has been two years, from a small community we are now more than 12000 strong. From a few thousand hits we've reached milestone of millions of hits every month. It's been a great journey for Team Rambhai and Rambhaiyyas. Would love to hear your comments on Rambhai's two years.
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IndiaShining: India's 61st year of Independence and Rambhai Second Anniversary Contest


August 15 is a great day for Team Rambhai. It is the 61st year of Indian Independence and rambhai.com's Second Anniversary too!To share this celebrations with you and spread the spirit of contribution we have launched a contest where you contribute and win great prizes! The duration of the contest is Aug 10, 2007 to Aug 24, 2007.Click here. for complete details
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Miscellaneous: Remote voting button for bloggers

Add the code available on this link to your Blog templates and you will get a "Go" button below your posts which your readers can use to Add your Blog Post directly to Rambhai! Once the post has been submitted, the button would allow your readers to vote for your story on rambhai.
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LetsDiscuss: Hope you like the new Rambhai Logo and punchline


Rambhai doesn't stand for news like in Times of India or NDTV. We are a place for desi news and views that are Zara Hatke ;-)

The new logo and punchline symbolise what we stand for.


Hope everyone liked it...
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LetsDiscuss: Announcing winners 59th Republic day contest at Rambhai

Hi Rambhaiyyas,
The 59th republic day contest as usual was keenly contested and hats need to be taken off for j2imu who has managed another victory. Three contests and 2 wins, thats an achievement.Shuchi and Jalsaa keenly contested however j2imu in the end proved too good for them. Announcing formally the winners:
just2impressu
Shuchi
A very special thanks and consolation prize to heehaw for designing this excellent banner.

Winners including heehaw please send us your mailing address,T shirt size and color preference to rambhai@rambhai.com so that we can deliver your prizes.
Jai Hind,
Team Rambhai
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Cricket: India murdered by Aussies on Day of 2nd test match


After being down 134 for 6 Aussies romp back to 370+ on Day 1... :-(
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Tech: Focused hack attack against Pligg and Rambhai

Unknown to most rambhaiyyas, rambhai.com which is based on pligg underwent a massive hacking attack. In fact several pligg sites in the known universe were facing the problem. Team Rambhai could see hundreds of users being registered every minute. To prevent such problems in future Rambhai.com has introduced email validation process in registration, more details on how this process works can be found on http://www.rambhai.com/register. The link in this story is for those pligg sites which are still facing the problem. What has been a plus for Team Rambhai during all this was, that not a single second of operation was missed and it was a clean surgical procedure.
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LetsDiscuss: Announcing Karma to reward Top Contributors

Dear Rambhai users,

Like George Orwell says in The Animal Farm, All rambhaiyyas are equal but some Rambhaiyyas are more equal than others. Team Rambhai feels that rambhaiyyas who contribute more deserve some special treatment. Now your vote wields more power if you have been posting good stories, commenting on other Rambhai stories, voting for your favourite links and finally have known Rambhai for a long time. This is what Team Rambhai calls Karma, your Karma is based on your level of contribution to Rambhai. It varies from a scale of 1 to 10, the weight attached to your vote is your Karma. There are other exciting features we intend to introduce based on your karma, Rambhaiyyas with better Karma will have access to premium features on the site.

Regards,

Team Rambhai

More info can be found at Karma FAQ
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LetsDiscuss: Announcing Winners Rambhai First Anniversary Contest

Hi all Rambhaiyyas, It has been a great first year, lots of memories to cherish. We had organized a contest starting August 15 and ending September 14, 2007. What's even more remarkable is that India is forging ahead and have just won the T20 world cup. Chak de India!!! In the spirit of competition and winning, this a link to the winners page for the rambhai contest. Congratulations to all the winners and please send us your mailing address, t shirt size, color preference (Black or Light gray) to rambhai@rambhai.com at the earliest so we can send you your much awaited prize. Cheers! Team Rambhai.
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Miscellaneous: Rambhai Anniversary contest extended till Sep 14

Hi all,
First of all an apology.Rambhai was down for more than 5 days last week. Last two weeks have been really tough for team Rambhai with our hosting provider literally forcing us to move to a different server. However all said and done, Rambhai is faster and more efficient and we promise a better user experience in coming weeks.

Due to all this commotion our first anniversary contest had suffered a lot. We have decided to extend this contest till September 14,2007 and we are offering four tshirts to be fair to everybody. Contest details can be found here.
Cheers to the Chai and keep posting!
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IndiaShining: Independent India is 60 years old & Rambhai.com is 1 yr old today!


Today as we celebrate India's 60th Independence day, we at Rambhai are also celebrating our FIRST ANNIVERSARY! What a great day... To share the celebrations with you, we are launching a contest of contribution. No not contribution to India. That we are all doing in the various spheres of life wherever we are, whether it is building world-class software, or designing lasting structures or invemting new things, or making great homes... This is for a similar contribution to making Rambhai.com a great place to visit daily. Go ahead: Post ever more interesting links Comment & Vote on links that interest you and WIN Fabulous T-shirts... :-) Happy Independence day dear countrymen and keep contributing to Rambhai as you are already doing...
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LetsDiscuss: An easy way to submit content to Rambhai.com

Ever felt the khujli(itch) for a quick way to submit a page to Rambhai? Rambhai has just the ilaaj(treatment) for you. Just add these bookmarklets to your browser, while surfing go to your favourites/bookmark menu and click on the bookmark (Submit to Rambhai), you will be directly taken to Rambhai submit page, where Rambhai would magically know what url you wanted to submit.

Click on the Rambhai link above to get the bookmarklets.

Let us know how it felt :-)
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Miscellaneous: Rambhai: About Us


What is Rambhai.com all about?
Rambhai.com is an India-centric link/news sharing website that is based on the principles of:
Free Expression
User Moderation
On rambhai, you can share/read stories which you think are of interest to Desis (this is a term used to refer to people who have some form of association with the Indian sub-continent).
We encourage users to be as fair as possible while passing a judgement by either voting or commenting. Basically behave unto others as you would have them behave unto you.

How do I contact the Rambhai team?
Send us an email at rambhai@rambhai.com

What kind of links can I expect?
The links/discussion will generally be on topics relevant to Indians/Desis. We expect the discussion topics to range from entertainment, sports, tech, politics etc. Overall following the free expression, user-moderation philosophy, we can't say in which direction the website will evolve. We do not want to control the direction.

What is your concept of free-expression in the Indian context?
Free expression is about feeling the freedom to post a story or a comment, lack of fear, desire to express and be recognized by a close-knit community of Desis.

Who is Rambhai?
Well. Rambhai is your neighborhood chaiwalla. It could be the guy serving in your college, just outside your workplace, anywhere you take a break, have a chai/coffee/smoke and discuss anything under the sun. We aspire to be that place on the net. Specifically, the name is inspired by Rambhai, the chaiwalla outside IIM Ahmedabad, who predates most people on the campus and is a very liked and talked about personality including in the classroom case-discussions of IIM Ahmedabad. IIMA guys-n-gals hang out there (many more options of hanging out have since come up like the CT etc) and chat about wide-ranging topics of interest.

Rambhai in media
Rambhai appeared on front page of TOI Ahemdabad in January 24,2008. Here is a link to the story . An excerpt from the TOI story:-


For the last 25 years, he has supplied steaming cups of chai at his kitli, offering food for thought and creating a space for debate and discussion for students of IIM-A.
Now, this chaiwala is raising a storm in a tea cup in cyberspace, with a website created in his name that has a popular discussion board which touches on almost everything — from global warming to “hot” Carla Bruni.
“Students come to my kitli and discuss a wide range of topics. I join in and like to have open discussions and exchange of ideas,” says Rambhai Kori, who came to the city from Uttar Pradesh when he was three.
Not surprising then, that the site named after him is a discussion board for topics and links for stories ranging from ‘Bloodbath on Dalal Street’ to ‘India’s launching of the Israeli satellite’ and ‘10 reasons why you should date a fat girl’. Another discussion is on Bin Laden’s son advising his father to change his ways, while another talks on ‘Sicko grabs Koena’s stomach’.


Rambhai chaiwalla recently appeared in TOI Ahmedabad edition, here is link to that story

Can I post anything here?
The freedom is broad but has limits due to law of the land. The user-moderated free-expression media as a concept is new to even the internet, atleast in the Indian context. So remember that we are the pioneers and it up to us to make this initiative a success. To this end, we will have to ensure that we adhere to some guidelines:
Reduce obscenities as much as possible.
Tone down personal attacks
Adhere to laws of the land i.e. the Indian Law if you are in India or the law of the country you are in.

We do not feel the above are too stringent and so reserve the right to remove content we feel is going against the law etc. Thus within these limits we will try as much as possible to keep the philosophy of free expression intact.

Visit Rambhai.com regularly. Post links of interest to Desis. Vote/Comment on the ones you like. Enjoy... Lets make history!
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