Corporate blogging has arrived in India. A search with the keywords 'India business' on the Technorati blog finder throws up 447 matches, and Microsoft India recently named its first Blogstars after a competition to find the best developer bloggers in the country. Times Online offers its pick of the business blogs...

The Indian Economy Blog Run by a team of six bloggers - economists, entrepreneurs and journalists based in India and the US. Recent posts tackle the brain drain, Indian public transport, and workplace bullies.

Capitalist India Not for socialists, this one. Under the tag line 'Free Minds and Free Markets in India' Capitalist India takes issue with 'Leftist predictions' about the US economy, hails the arrival of Wal-Mart 'creating jobs for the masses', and, most recently, offers its solution for global warming: more prosperity. "Expressing concern for the environment and global warming is the new fashion of the day for global elite opinion, perhaps only second to disparaging US President, G W Bush," it says.

India Inc. Part of the Digital Inspiration technology blog - which boasts and average of 1.2 million hits per month - India Inc. offers Indian business news and analysis across a broad range of sectors. Starbucks, Formula 1 and Tata all feature in recent posts.

South Asia Biz Currently keeping a close eye on the action at Lord's (and Bollywood, and television talent contest Indian Idol), South Asia Biz follows also business news in India and across the region.

The Business of Bollywood More Bollywood than business - currently ruminating on whether or not Shilpa Shetty is a home-wrecker - but the Our Bollywood blog does track events in the film industry, including recent news that Disney was considering a $30 million investment in a production company that has apparently also drawn interest from Sony Pictures and News Corporation, parent company of Times Online.

India A blog dedicated to news from the car industry in India. Its author also exercises the right to reply - to Jeremy Clarkson after he took on the world on Times Online.

Internet in India A blogger's attempt to offer "a more comprehensive business view" of the internet industry in India.

trak.in' India "business buzz" from various industries. The blog has only been running since May this year, but its author is a keen advocate of the corporate blogosphere and offers ten reasons to set up a business blog.

India Business and Stock Business analysis from an accountancy student in Mumbai. His most recent post asks 'Who's afraid of Wal-Mart?'

Don't trust the Indian media! An example of a blog with an agenda. Its author, a 28 year old print journalist from New Delhi, argues that the Indian media is "full of vested interests", but despite his own declared interests, for example his irritation with "the way the Indian media takes the moral high ground", his posts do offer a close look at events in the Indian media world.

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