INDIAN KUKAI # 3 - January 2014 - Call for entries

Namaste!

We welcome you to the third edition of Indian Kukai.

Indian Kukai, which will be held once every two months, comes to you from IN haiku group, which was formed by a  few like-minded haiku poets at the Haiku Utsav, Pune in February, 2013 – for exploring, promoting, enjoying and sinking deeper into the intricacies of this beautiful art form.

We request you to bookmark or follow our blog, Indian Kukai @indiankukai.blogspot.in
Topics and results will be posted on this blog itself. We’ll send you the ballot to the mail ID you use to enter the kukai.



Theme:

The theme for the third edition of Indian Kukai is: SCENT/ FRAGRANCE

The word need not be used in the haiku, but it should be clearly imaged or implied.

Example:

autumn colors
the scent
of a match being lit

Michele L Harvey
(The Herons Nest editor’s choice winner,December.2012))

Submission Period : WEDNESDAY, – 1ST January, 2014 to SUNDAY, 12th January, 2014 (11:59PM INDIAN STANDARD TIME)
Voting Period:  – TUESDAY- 14TH JAN 2014 to MONDAY 20th JAN 2014(12 NOON INDIAN STANDARD TIME)
Results no later than TUESDAY – 28th JAN 2014



Guidelines:

· *   Participants may send no more than ONE HAIKU ENTRY on the topic. No haiga entries please.

   * Please do not enter any previously published haiku. Publication includes personal blogs, journals, facebook, print or websites.

   * All haiku entries are to remain anonymous till we publish the results. Any shared information or discussion about your entries in any group or forum, will be considered a violation of the rule.

   * If you submit a haiku to the kukai, then voting is mandatory.

   * If you fail to vote during the voting period, then your haiku will be shown without ranking points in the results.

   * If you notice any similarity between, an entry and any haiku you might have read previously, please don’t hesitate to inform us. We promise to look into the matter.


How to enter:
 

1. Send one haiku to our email id: in.kukai@gmail.com
2. The subject for correspondence will be “Indian Kukai #03 – My Entry”
3. Please sign your haiku with your name and place of residence (city, country).
4. We will acknowledge your entry once we receive it.
5. Write your entry in the body of the mail, left aligned. Attachments will not be considered.
6. We will send a ballot mail with the entries to those who have entered, once the submission period closes.

Guidelines for voting period:

   * We will send you an e-mail with the entries numbered and made anonymous.
   * You will have 7 points to use in total, no more than 3 marks to any one haiku entry. All 7 points must be used.
   * Please do not vote for your own entry. Such votes will result in all your votes being rejected.
   * Order your votes in the same order as in list.

    For eg:
    #01 -- 3 points
    #06 -- 1 points
    #25 -- 2 points
    #55 -- 1 points
  *  Once voting period closes, the results will be published on this blog. We will intimate the publishing of results on blog via a mail as well.



Welcome again, and we hope you enjoy this edition of Indian Kukai.

Cheers!



Organizers, Indian Kukai

Results - The Indian Kukai #02 - Theme "Light"

Namaste!

We thank all who entered for making this edition of the Kukai a successful one. This was the first edition that was thrown open to the International scene after checking for work to be done, how to manage the kukai etc. in the inaugural edition. We had entries from haijin from 12 countries, and we were happy to see that. We hope this continues over the upcoming editions as well.

Participants from: Australia (4), Bangladesh (1), Bulgaria (1), Canada (1), Germany (1), India (24), Israel (2), Poland (2), Romania (2), Singapore (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States of America (6).

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Congratulations to Paresh Tiwari, who wins this edition of the Indian Kukai. Others in the top 5 are Sanjuktaa, Sandi Pray, Angelee Deodhar & Nandini Nair, and Gautam Nadkarni.

Results displayed as (5,3,1)=5*1pt votes + 3*2pt votes + 1*3pt votes = 5+6+3 = 14 pts

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First Place, Entry #46, 37 POINTS

mustard fields –
a thimbleful of sun
in each blossom

Paresh Tiwari
Hyderabad, India.

(8,7,5)=37pts

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Second Place, Entry #10, 22 POINTS

Margosa leaves
strumming the sunlight...
a poem I cannot write

Sanjuktaa
Belgaum, India.

(4,6,2)=22pts

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Third Place, Entry #29, 19 POINTS

a child's face
how the lotus turns
to moonlight

Sandi Pray
North Carolina, U.S.A.

(4,6,1)=19pts

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Fourth Place Tie, 18 POINTS (2)

Entry #1

uncertain light-
between us the distance
of your love affair

Angelee Deodhar
Chandigarh, India.

(5,2,3)=18pts


Entry #31

stray sunbeam...
a glimpse of grandma
in my newborn's smile

Nandini Nair
Pune, India.

(7,4,1)=18pts

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Fifth Place, Entry #39, 17 POINTS

loft cleaning —
this paper lantern of
my lost childhood

Gautam Nadkarni
Mumbai, India.

(7,5,0)=17pts

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16 POINTS (1)

Entry #27

Diwali night-
the lone lamp flickers by
his framed photo

Yesha Shah
Surat, India.

(9,2,1)=16pts

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14 POINTS (1)

Entry #12

first light
the swollen buds
stir with dreams

Kala Ramesh
Pune, India.

(8,3,0)=14pts

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13 POINTS (1)

Entry #17

reflected light
a neighbour compliments me
about my daughter

Dawn Bruce
Sydney, Australia.

(6,2,1)=13pts

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10 POINTS (2)

Entry #2

around the bonfire –
the words of the old man
passing through the light

Eduard Tara
Iași, Romania.

(3,2,1)=10pts

Entry #38

moonlit night ...
a distant howl creeping
under my skin

Jayashree Maniyil
Melbourne, Australia.

(5,1,1)=10pts

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08 POINTS (3)

Entry #30

star light -
the wisdom in a
newborn's eyes

Carole Harrison
Jamberoo, Australia.

(1,2,1)=8pts


Entry #32

silver string moon --
a spark from the horseshoe
flies off

Tzetzka Ilieva
Marietta, U.S.A.

(1,2,1)=8pts


Entry #41

morning light . . .
relief goods falling
from the sky

Christine Villa
North Highlands, U.S.A.

(4,2,0)=8pts

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07 POINTS (1)

Entry #44

blue sapphire shimmers
lucid softly sensual
between her white breasts

Tahera Mannan
Nagpur, India.

(2,1,1)=7pts

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06 POINTS (2)

Entry #4

headlights
through a gap in the clouds
a first blue

Claudius Gottstein
Borgloh, Germany.


(2,2,0)=6pts

Entry #40

bats crisscross the sky..
an oil lamp flickers
before the tulsi

Anitha Varma
Kochi, India.

(4,1,0)=6pts

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05 POINTS (6)

Entry #9

still life –
ray of the sun approaching
to the picture frame

Krzysztof Kokot
Nowy Targ, Poland.

(2,0,1)=5pts


Entry #28

typhoon shelter …
the light of the sun
somewhere

Asni Amin
Singapore.

(3,1,0)=5pts


Entry #34

to caress the ground
rays struggled
through dense foliage

Vardhini N C
Mumbai, India.

(2,0,1)=5pts


Entry #36

predawn light
in my bedroom window-
Venus fades

Arvinder Kaur
Chandigarh, India.

(5,0,0)=5pts


Entry #43

first light
it's for the birds ~
back to my dreams

Freddy Ben-Arroyo
Haifa, Israel.

(3,1,0)=5pts


Entry #47

such is a place
where the sun never sets -
cyber monday

William Sorlien
Minnesota, U.S.A.

(1,2,0)=5pts

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04 POINTS (5)

Entry #6

sunbeams -
bare brown cliffs
turn red-gold

Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
Mumbai, India.

(4,0,0)=4pts


Entry #8

almost dusk . . .
from the ground to the cloud
fireworks

Ramesh Anand
Bangalore, India.

(2,1,0)=4pts


Entry #14

dawn light-
a leaf falls from the top
of an Okaliptus

Rita Odeh
Nazareth, Israel.

(0,2,0)=4pts


Entry #20

like an oasis. . .
my home shimmers
in autumn sun

Carole MacRury
Washington, U.S.A.

(2,1,0)=4pts


Entry #45

on the pavement...
distant temple light
brings cheer

Hema Ravi
Chennai, India.

(4,0,0)=4pts

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03 POINTS (2)

Entry #13

headlight beams
through hedges across the road -
movie on my wall

Ajaya Mahala
Pune, India.

(1,1,0)=3pts


Entry #21

autumn night
even the streetlights gets
foggy

Neelam Dadhwal
Chandigarh, India.

(1,1,0)=3pts

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02 POINTS (5)

Entry #3

illumination-
dark shadows disintegrate
in oblivion

Akila G
Hyderabad, India.

(2,0,0)=2pts


Entry #11

my
Koh-i-Noor*
you

* The diamond. The name means "mountain of light" in Persian.

Samar Ghose
Perth, Australia.

(2,0,0)=2pts


Entry #26

slicing through darkness --
an express train
zips past .....

Chitra Rajappa
Bangalore, India.

(2,0,0)=2pts


Entry #35

edge of night . . .
aurora borealis dances
me outside

Veronika Zora Novak
Toronto, Canada.

(0,1,0)=2pts


Entry #37

light in her eyes
lightning stroke in her voice
i hug sheer silence

Purush
Nashville, U.S.A.

(2,0,0)=2pts

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01 POINTS (4)

Entry #19

dark tunnel
distant beam
salvation or end?

Praveen M
Bangalore, India.

(1,0,0)=1pt


Entry #23

the painter applies
a bright flame to a deya
with his broad paint brush

Keith A Simmonds
Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago.

(1,0,0)=1pt


Entry #24

Mind-numbing mist
Rays pierce through
My heart sings

Murli Raman
Mumbai, India.

(1,0,0)=1pt


Entry #42

blue moon –
the dreamcatcher filtering
jazz for me

Diana Teneva
Haskovo, Bulgaria.

(1,0,0)=1pt

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NO POINTS THIS TIME, SORRY! (6)

Entry #5

diwali night sky
each house forms own milky way
with joyous big bangs

Aasif Shah
Mumbai, India.


Entry #15

silence on the sea
moonlight goes out

Robert Kania
Warsaw, Poland.


Entry #16

bridal night
she pleads him
to switch off the light

Quamrul Hassan
Dhaka, Bangladesh


Entry #18

young hearts..
burn like summer
monsoon prophecy

Reshmy Warrier
Mumbai, India.


Entry #22

another sunrise --
a day closer to hear
the faraway songs

Kumarendra Mallick
Hyderabad, India.


Entry #33

by haiku poems
traveling to India -
with the speed of light

Gheorghe POSTELNICU STOPS
Bucharest, Romania.

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VOTE UNRECEIVED (2)

Entry #7

sunny day…
intricate bamboo props
bent for deyas

Gillena Cox
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.


Entry #25

dancing motes...
light through a narrow chink
in the attic

Shernaz Wadia
Pune, India.

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Call for entries for Edition #3 will be in the last week of December. We are happy to have had you for this edition.

Till next time,


Organizers,
Indian Kukai from IN haiku.

Indian Kukai #2 - November 2013 - Call for Entries

Namaste!

We welcome you to the 2nd edition of Indian Kukai.

Indian Kukai, which will be held once every two months, comes to you from IN haiku group, which was formed by few like-minded haiku poets at the Haiku Utsav in February of 2013 – for exploring, promoting, enjoying and sinking deeper into the intricacies of this beautiful art form.

We request you to bookmark or follow our blog, Indian Kukai @ http://indiankukai.blogspot.com/

Topics and results will be posted to this blog only. We’ll send you the ballot to the mail ID you use to enter the kukai.

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The topic for Indian Kukai #02 is LIGHT.

The word need not be used in the haiku, but the haiku should be showing the topic clearly.

burning pyre...

the light through

black smoke

Vinay Leo R. 

October 2013

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Submission Period: FRI – 1ST NOV 2013 to SUN – 17TH NOV 2013 (11:59PM INDIAN STANDARD TIME)
Voting Period: MON – 18TH NOV 2013 to SUN – 24TH NOV 2013 (12 NOON INDIAN STANDARD TIME)
Results no later than: SAT – 30TH NOV 2013

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Guidelines:

• Participants may send no more than ONE HAIKU ENTRY on the topic. No haiga entries please.
• Please do not enter any previously published haiku. Publication includes personal blogs, journals, facebook, print or websites.
• All haiku entries are to remain anonymous till we publish the results.
• If you submit a haiku to the kukai, then voting is mandatory.
• If you fail to vote during the voting period, then your haiku will be shown without ranking points in the results.

1. Send one haiku to our email id: in.kukai@gmail.com
2. The subject for correspondence will be “Indian Kukai #02 – My Entry”
3. Please sign your haiku with your name and place of residence (city, country).
4. We will acknowledge your entry once we receive it.
5. Write your entry in the body of the mail, left aligned. Attachments will not be considered.
6. We will send a ballot mail with the entries to those who have entered, once the submission period closes.

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Guidelines for Voting Period:

• We will send you an e-mail with the entries numbered and made anonymous.
• You will have 7 points to use in total, no more than 3 marks to any one haiku entry. All 7 points must be used.
• Please do not vote for your own entry. Such votes will result in all your votes being rejected.
• Order your votes in the same order as in list.
  
  For eg:
  #01 -- 3 points
  #06 -- 1 points
  #25 -- 2 points
  #55 -- 1 points
• Once voting period closes, the results will be published on this blog. We will intimate the publishing of results on blog via a mail as well.

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Welcome again, and we hope you enjoy this edition of Indian Kukai.

Cheers!


Organizers, Indian Kukai.

Results - The Indian Kukai #01 - Theme "Music"

Namaste!

Congratulations to Nandini Nair, winner of the first Indian Kukai, and others in the top 5 ... Arvinder Kaur, Sanjuktaa, RK Sameer, Yesha Shah and Paresh Tiwari.

Results displayed as (5,3,1)=5*1pt votes + 3*2pt votes + 1*3pt votes = 5+6+3 = 14 pts

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Winner, 28 POINTS

Entry #14

my baby's heartbeat
against mine -
the rhythm for our lullaby

Nandini Nair
Pune, India

(6,8,2)=28pts

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2nd Place, 22 POINTS

Entry #12

distant echoes--
a murmuring brook
in her anklets

Arvinder Kaur
Chandigarh, India

(8,4,2)=22pts

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3rd Place, 19 POINTS

Entry #31

misty moon-
I almost remember
that song dad used to sing

Sanjuktaa
Belgaum, India

(9,2,2)=19pts

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4th Place, 15 POINTS

Entry #08

another winter night...
the lone watchman's
same whistle tune

RK Sameer
Manipal, India

(13,1,0)=15pts

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5th Place Tie, 12 POINTS (2)

Entry #11

evening raga -
the prussian wing-tips
of a blue jay

Paresh Tiwari
Hyderabad, India

(7,1,1)=12pts

Entry #21

temple bells...
memories of childhood
merge with the hymns

Yesha Shah
Surat, India

(6,3,0)=12pts

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Results Continues...

10 POINTS(1)

Entry #22

open window:
memories enter
on the wings of an old song

Chitra Rajappa
Bangalore, India

(3,2,1)=10pts

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9 POINTS (2)

Entry #02

blossoms sway
an old song breathes
through my mind

Kala Ramesh
Mumbai, India

(4,1,1)=9pts

Entry #25

replete with birdsong...
flowerless
the mango tree

Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
Mumbai, India

(4,1,1)=9pts

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8 POINTS (1)

Entry #32

parched earth —
I yearn for the raga
of rain

Gautam Nadkarni
Mumbai, India

(2,3,0)=8pts

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7 POINTS (3)

Entry #13

doves on a cable –
musical notations
of a spring sonata

Shernaz
Pune, India

(4,0,1)=7pts

Entry #16

boatman's song
across the river…
the Brahminy Kite

Anitha Varma
Ernakulam, India

(5,1,0)=7pts

Entry #19

Vande Mataram*…
fingerspelling muses
for the disabled

*National Song of India

Pravat Kumar Padhy,
Odisha, India

(2,1,1)=7pts

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6 POINTS (2)

Entry #07

jazzy night ...
silent notes sparkle
in the sky

Jayashree Maniyil
Melbourne, Australia

(4,1,0)=6pts

Entry #10

long day...
child's first cry
soothes

Hema Ravi
Chennai, India

(4,1,0)=6pts

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5 POINTS (4)

Entry #06

music in 3-D --
the ripples of moonlight dance
in Yamuna

Kumarendra Mallick
Hyderabad, India

(1,2,0)=5pts

Entry #09

fall's music
the cry of crows
circles a crow

Ramesh Anand
Suzhou, China

(1,2,0)=5pts

Entry #18

croaking frog -
setting rhythm
for my next poem

SB Vadivelrajan
Thirukadayur, India

(3,1,0)=5pts

Entry #24

A Gulmohar tree draining her fire
In a jugalbandhi*
of wind and rainwater.


*jugalbandhi - in Indian music, a duet involving two musicians, either vocalists or instrumentalists

Rochelle Potkar
Mumbai, India

(0,1,1)=5pts

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4 POINTS (2)

Entry #28

moving the strings
in time to cosmic rhythms -
tuning the very soul

Praveen Menon
Bangalore, India

(2,1,0)=4pts

Entry #33

cuckoos’ song…
the jungle of brick & mortar
silenced

Arman Varma
Kanpur, India

(2,1,0)=4pts

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3 POINTS (3)

Entry #01

autumn sunset -
yesterday's hits remix
my memories

Geetha
Madras, India

(1,1,0)=3pts

Entry #15

An expectant sky
The pangs of pain
In synchronous rigour

Reshmy Warrier
Mumbai, India

(3,0,0)=3pts

Entry #30

near dawn
someone in my neighborhood
practicing sa re ga ma

Quamrul Hassan
Dhaka, Bangladesh

(1,1,0)=3pts

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2 POINTS (2)

Entry #05

Rumbling skies
Pitter-patter shower
Rain rhapsody!

Murali Raman
Mumbai, India

(2,0,0)=2pts

Entry #29

neighbour's song practice-
all the dogs of the street
joins him

spandanspark
Burdwan, India

(2,0,0)=2pts

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1 POINT (1)

Entry #27

after the shooting star-
chant the wish list
in a single note

Kavya Kavuri
Hyderabad, India

(1,0,0)=1pts

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NO POINTS THIS TIME, SORRY! (4)

Entry #04

Splashing waterfalls
cut noise farther
I standing on bank of river.

Neelam Dadhwal
Punjab, India

Entry #17

Your rhythm goes into
My window of emotion
For lovely music

Biswajit Ganguly
Kolkata, India

Entry #23

lullaby
baby in swing
enjoys the octave

Purush
Guntur, India

Entry #26

a star is born
'once more' for the
standby artist

Tushar Gandhi
Mumbai, India

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DID NOT VOTE (NO RESULTS) (2)

Entry #20

delicate fingers
touching zebra stripes with love
blessings from above

Tahera Mannan
Nagpur, India

Entry #34

he sound of his flute
awakens our conscience -
a blind beggar

Sandra Martyres
Mumbai, India

RESULT UNDISPLAYED ON REQUEST (1)

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Thanks to everyone who participated in this edition. We now have an idea on what needs to be done for the next edition. We’ve had fun reading your haiku as well.

Till next time,

Organizers,
Indian Kukai from IN haiku.

Indian Kukai #1 - September 2013 - Welcome

Namaste!

We welcome you to the inaugural edition of Indian Kukai.

Indian Kukai comes to you from IN haiku group, which was formed by few like-minded haiku poets at the Haiku Utsav in February of 2013 – for exploring, promoting, enjoying and sinking deeper into the intricacies of this beautiful art form.

We request you to bookmark or follow our blog, Indian Kukai @ http://indiankukai.blogspot.com/

Topics and results will be posted to this blog only. We’ll send you the ballot to the mail ID you use to enter the kukai.

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The topic for Indian Kukai #01 is MUSIC.

The word need not be used in the haiku, but the haiku should be showing the topic clearly.

silent dawn...

calmness broken

by a shankh*

Vinay Leo R. 

August 2013

(* a shankh is a conch shell blown to initiate religious ceremonies and a major Hindu article of prayer)

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Submission Period: SUNDAY – 1ST SEPTEMBER 2013 to SUNDAY – 15TH SEPTEMBER 2013 (11:59PM IST)
Voting Period: MONDAY – 16TH SEPTEMBER 2013 to SUNDAY – 22ND SEPTEMBER 2013 (11:59PM IST)
Results no later than: SUNDAY – 29TH SEPTEMBER 2013

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Guidelines:

• Participants may send no more than ONE HAIKU ENTRY on the topic. No haiga entries please.
• Please do not enter any previously published haiku. Publication includes personal blogs, journals, facebook, print or websites.
• All haiku entries are to remain anonymous till we publish the results.
• If you submit a haiku to the kukai, then voting is mandatory.
• If you fail to vote during the voting period, then your haiku will be shown without ranking points in the results.

1. Send one haiku to our email id: in.kukai@gmail.com
2. The subject for correspondence will be “Indian Kukai #01 – My Entry”
3. Please sign your haiku with your name and place of residence (city, country).
4. We will acknowledge your entry once we receive it.
5. Write your entry in the body of the mail, left aligned. Attachments will not be considered.
6. We will send a ballot mail with the entries to those who have entered, once the submission period closes.

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Guidelines for Voting Period:

• We will send you an e-mail with the entries numbered and randomized.
• You will have 7 points to use in total, no more than 3 marks to any one haiku entry. All 7 points must be used.
• Please do not vote for your own entry. Such votes will result in all your votes being rejected.
• Order your votes in the same order as in list.
  
  For eg:
  #01 -- 3 points
  #06 -- 1 points
  #25 -- 2 points
  #55 -- 1 points
• Once voting period closes, the results will be published on this blog. We will intimate the publishing of results on blog via a mail as well.

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Welcome again, and we hope you enjoy this edition of Indian Kukai.

Cheers!


Organizers, Indian Kukai.