THANK YOU!
We were overwhelmed by your response. This is the first time we at TYX were ballsy enough to attempt something like a national-level writing contest. Murphy was with us all the way. We got delays. We made goof-ups. Heck, we even made typos and grammar mistakes. In a contest that was supposed to test writing skills. Yes, we facepalmed on multiple occasions. We sometimes wondered what we were doing, and whether it was something foolhardy.
And then, that beautiful feeling came. When you realize that things are going right. Like when your company starts making profits after 3 fiscals in the red. Like when you realize Rahul Dravid’s rearguard effort is not just saving India… But winning them the match. Slowly, but surely, your entries started coming in. We felt reassured. And then… It was a deluge. Our inboxes were brimming. It was working!
1011. One Thousand Eleven. A very binary-pleasing number. That’s how many entries we got.
Thank you. To each one of you who participated. Some of you won, some of you didn’t make the cut. But you all – ALL of you – reassured us by telling us that what we were doing was right. That we were right in launching a writing contest. That, even in this day and age of SMS lingo, that there is space for the properly written (typed?) word.
Scribe Hunt will happen again. It will be bigger. Prizes will be bigger. Entries will be more. Topics will be more. Maybe in a few years, one of our participants will win the Booker Prize. Who knows? Anything can happen.
But you guys – all 1011 of you – were the pioneers. You made it happen the first time around. And for that, we at TYX applaud and thank you all.
Enough of the drivel, let’s get on to the prizes.
The ScribeChampion wins...
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| Apart from this mega winner, our judges have also chosen the ten most awesome entries per category. All ten of you will be offered an internship position at TYX. We’re not saying that you need to learn anything from us, but we would love to work with someone as good as you are. The loot in store for the top three per category - |
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| And the winners are... |
| Scribe Champion | ||||
| Agrima Joshua | ||||
| Humour | Socio-Political Issues | Fiction | Personal Experiences | Poetry |
| The top three 1. Anand J 2. Ashwin S Kumar 3. Ashutosh Dikshit In no particular order Pierre Fitter Agrima Joshua Varun Shetty Ankit Srivastav Gowri Kishore Abhishek Sahay Uday Mane |
The top three 1. Pragya Joshi 2. Neha Khandelwal 3. Ankita Banerjee In no particular order Arpita Chakraborty Snehal Biswas Kavitha Murali Abhishek Sahay Abhijit Prasad Aneet Chhabra Antara Vasudev |
The top three 1. AR Srivatsan 2. Mohini Mukherjee 3. Goemon Abraham In no particular order Arpita Nandi Divya Naidu Krishnarjun B Uday Mane Neha R Khandelwal Radhika Nagesh Agrima Joshua |
The top three 1. Somya Barpanda 2. Gowri Kishore 3. Rohit Kumar In no particular order Lakshmi Mohan Radhika Gangadhar Sudeep Singh Vidyut Kale Neha Khandelwal Nabanita Dhar Urvashi Tuli |
The top three 1. Nikita Rajwade 2. Aditya Kuhar 3. Sheena D'Lima In no particular order Urvashi Tuli Mihir Chitre Michael Ampat Varghese Saiber Shaikh Sankalp Khandelwal Sairam Krishnan Prithvi Kanti |