Namaste! Hello!
We welcome you to the 15th
edition of Indian
Kukai.
From now on Indian Kukai
will be held once every three months.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.
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.
The topic for Indian Kukai #15 is ASH
The word need not be used in the haiku, but the haiku should be
showing the topic clearly.
Submission Period:
FRI – 5th FEB. to FRI – 26th FEB. 2016 (12 NOON INDIAN STANDARD TIME)
Voting Period:
SAT – 27th FEB. to FRI – 4th MARCH. 2016(12 NOON INDIAN STANDARD TIME)
Results no later than: FRI – 11th MARCH. 2016
Guidelines:
·
Participants may send no more than ONE HAIKU
ENTRY on the
topic. No haiga entries please. Only haiku in English shall be accepted.
·
Please do not enter any previously published haiku. Publication
includes personal blogs, journals, Facebook, print or websites. Also, please do
not use any obscene words in your haiku. We wish to keep the Indian Kukai free
of such words.
·
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.
How to enter?
2.
Only haiku in English shall be accepted.
3.
The subject for correspondence will be “Indian Kukai #15 (ASH) – My Entry”
4.
Please sign your haiku with your name and place of residence
(city, country).
5.
The acknowledgement for the same will come at most by the weekend
after we receive your entry.
6.
Write your entry in the body of the mail, left aligned.
Attachments will not be considered.
7.
We will send a ballot mail with the entries to those who have
entered, once the submission period closes.
Guidelines for Voting Period:
·
Only those who have submitted an entry to this edition of the
kukai can vote.
·
We will send you an e-mail with the entries numbered and made
anonymous.
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You will have 6 points to use in total, no more than 3 marks to
any one haiku entry. All 6 points must be used.
·
Send all your votes in one e-mail to our email id: in.kukai@gmail.com with the subject for correspondence as "Indian Kukai #15 (ASH) - My Votes". We
request you not to reply to the ballot mail itself, as it will help us to tally
your votes easily.
·
The acknowledgement for the same will come at most by the weekend
after we receive your vote mail.
·
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
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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.