India's first multi-lingual portal,
webdunia.com
,
has launched a unique online-poll to choose the most eminent Indians from
the field of global citizenry, political leaders, cricketers, sports
persons, films stars (actors, actresses and sexy heroines), as well as the
best of Indian movies of 2007.
Over 100 million Indian internet users from anywhere in the world will get
an opportunity to make a choice in their own language.
This exclusive poll that combines the inputs of Webdunia users in 9 Indian
languages -- Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada,
Malayalam and Bengali-is absolutely free compared to several SMS based
polls.
For each category, a team of 9 editors of Webdunia made a short list of 10
personalities based on the number of times their name appeared in the news
and features columns of Webdunia as well as user searches made on the
language search engine in 2007.
The impact of an individual's choice is visible online to the viewers'
seconds after casting their vote. The viewers can see the relative ranking
of the 10 names in each one of the 10 options. This allows a viewer to find
relative ranking of global celebrities on platforms such as:
1. World's most popular global citizen (George Bush, LN Mittal, Indira
Nooyi, Manmohan Singh, Sunita Williams, Hillary Clinton, David Beckham,
Pervez Musharraf, Maria Sharapova, Vladimir Putin)
2. India's most popular citizen (Mukesh Ambani, APJ Abdul Kalam,
Amitabh Bachhan, Manmohan Singh, Ratan Tata, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Lata
Mangeshkar, Baba Ramdev, Rahul Gandhi, Atal Behari Vajpayee)
3. Most popular Indian politician (Manmohan Singh, Lal Krishan Advani,
Sonia Gandhi, Laloo Prasad Yadav, P Chidambaram, Kumari Mayawati, Prakash
Karat, Rahul Gandhi, Narendra Modi, M Karunanidhi)
4. Most popular Indian woman (Pratibha Patil, Sania Mirza, Aishwarya
Rai, Sonia Gandhi, Kiran Bedi, Kumari Mayavati, Vasundhra Raje, Shiela
Dikshit, Mamata Banerjee, Jayalalitha)
5. India's most popular actor (Amitabh Bachan, Rajani Kant, Hrithik
Roshan, Shahrukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Chiranjeevi, Abhishek
Bachan, Aamir Khan, Mohan Lal)
6. Most popular actress (Aishwarya Rai, Rani Mukherjee, Shreya, Vidya
Balan, Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor, Dipika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra,
Anushka, Ramya)
7. Best Movie of the year (Chak De India, Bhul Bhailaya, Shivaji, Om
Shanthi Om, Aap Ka Surur, Duniya, Gandhi My Father, Chocolate, Namaste
London, Guru)
8. India's most sexy actress (Bipasha Basu, Mallika Sherawat, Shilpa
Shetty, Kareena Kapur, Celina Jetley, Abhinayashree, Neha Dhupia, Namita,
Nisha Kothari, Nayan Tara)
9. Most popular cricketer (Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni,
Anil Kumble, Zaheer Khan, Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly, Irfan Pathan,
Harbhajan Singh, Gautam Gambhir)
10. Most popular Indian sports person (Sania Mirza, Viswanathan Anand,
Dola Banerjee, Prabhjot Singh, Dilip Singh Khali, Abhinav Bindra, Leander
Paes, Jeev Milkha Singh, Naraian Karthikeyan, Baichung Bhutia)
The process of making their choices is simple and almost instantaneous and
be made by simply logging on to www.webdunia.com up to January 10, 2008. For each category only one choice can be made and
the program is designed to avoid multiple votes by the same person.
About WebduniaWebdunia, India's largest multi-lingual portal, offers quality content to the people of different religions, cultures and age groups. Nine Indian language portals of Webdunia offer channels like news from the world of politics, sports and human interest stories, Bollywood, Life-Style, Religion, Science, IT, Career, Astrology, Literature, etc. Live cricket commentary, ticker and Webdunia Poll are some other major highlights of Webdunia language portals.
Notes to the Editors
1. Webdunia portals are in 9 languages
2. Email service is available in 11 languages-Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati,
Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.
For media queries, please contact:
At Strategic Communications and PR Counsel
Sanjiv Kataria
+91 98100 48095
sanjiv.kataria@webdunia.com
sanjiv.kataria@gmail.com
At
Sandeep Sisodiya
customer.care@webdunia.net
