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Photography Competition     



Competition Result

The much awaited results for the photography competition are out!

The winner is Barber Shop, Chattapur by Jaipal. Jaipal gets a Rs 5,000 gift voucher for buying digital camera on IndiaPlaza! The 10 finalists who get Rs 1,000 gift vouchers for buying digital camera on IndiaPlaza are Saad, Paromita, Saurabh, Rahil, Hitesh, Inder, Manraj, Ashit, Lakshmi & Rajesh. Congratulations!!

Capture the essence of your city and win a digital camera worth Rs 5,000!

To celebrate the release of Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s sublime The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, Penguin has teamed up with IndiaPlaza to offer you the chance of following in the footsteps of Karan Seth, the main protagonist of the book and a dazzling photographer in the making.

Just as Karan Seth hopes to ‘immortalize Bombay with my camera’; we want you to send us your photos that symbolise the city, town or village in which you live. It could be a famous landmark, a memorable event or simply a scene of daily life that epitomises your surroundings.
 
The Prizes
1 Winner : Rs 5,000 gift voucher for digital camera on IndiaPlaza
10 Finalists : Rs 1,000 gift voucher for digital camera on IndiaPlaza
Gallery : Rs 100 off The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay on IndiaPlaza
 
Visit the Photo Gallery here and let us know what you think of the photos that have been chosen!
 
How to Enter
 
You can submit a maximum of 3 photos, and we will choose our favourite.
Photos must be submitted as JPEGs, non-animated GIFs, or PNGs.
Email your photos to contest@in.penguingroup.com.
Each photo must not be bigger than 500KB.
Go to The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay Facebook Group to see if your photo has made it into the Photo Gallery: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53784061785. If it has you are entitled to Rs 100 off the book on IndiaPlaza.
The 10 Finalists will be chosen from the Gallery by the author, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, and Penguin Books India, and will receive Rs 1,000 gift voucher to spend on a digital camera on IndiaPlaza.
The 1 Winner will be chosen from the Finalists by the author, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, and Penguin Books India, and will receive Rs 5,000 gift voucher to spend on a digital camera on IndiaPlaza.
 
Terms and Conditions
 
No purchase is necessary to enter this Photography Competition.
The Photography Competition is open to all, with the exception of employees of the promoter, their immediate families and anyone else connected with this promotion.
The winners agree to take part in reasonable post event publicity and to the use of their names and photographs in such publicity.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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