Iridium Interactive wins The Manthan-AIF Award 2006 for India’s Best e-Content

Iridium Interactive was awarded The Manthan-AIF Award 2006 in the e-culture category for its work in creating the truly interactive website – Ananda Utsav.

The site captures the colour, sounds, frenetic activity and even the smells of Kolkata during this high-spirited period in the Kolkata year. Through the use of photographs of puja pandals from across the world and images from Kolkata itself, which was converted into Flash movies, the excitement and religious fervour of this high point in Kolkata’s calendar comes shining through.

The Ananda Utsav site attracted an overwhelming response from visitors. The success of the site may be attributed to the many features on it but also an understanding of what Puja means to the Bengali – homebound or on the other side of the world. The site has been able to reach out to every Bengali in the world – wherever they may be – and give them a taste of the sounds and sights of home.

Iridium Interactive has designed and created the Ananda Utsav site that transcends geographical boundaries, to bring the cultural phenomenon of Kolkata to the world and knitting the world wide Bengali diaspora.

“This award reconfirms Iridium Interactive’s consistent and proven ability to understand the desire of the client, translate that desire into web practicality while adding value and our creative inputs” said Mr. Manish Kumar, Practice Head, Iridium Interactive Ltd.

With the award of the Manthan-AIF Award 2006, the Iridium Interactive trophy cabinet is getting crowded. Iridium in the past has bagged the Award For Excellence in Advertising (ADEX) – three years in a row!

About Manthan-AIF Awards

The Manthan Award is an Indian initiative by Digital Empowerment Foundation, India as the national initiative of World Summit Award, to select and promote the best practices in e-Content and Creativity in India. It involves representatives from each state and union territory of India and visualizes the bridging of digital divide and narrowing of the content gap as its overall goal.

For The Manthan Award 2006, American India Foundation has come forward to become the Principal Partner. Thus the Manthan Award now is called The Manthan-AIF Award 2006.

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Iridium Interactive specializes in offering unique user centric e-business solutions varying from Strategy and Design to Technology and Marketing. Iridium Interactive, with its presence on three continents, has been in the forefront of integrating strategy, design and technology to build unique, robust user centric e-business solutions.

With rich experience in providing technology based e-business solutions over the past years, we have retained focus on user centric applications that enables users to break the boundaries and barriers and lead the advantages of technology. Our portfolio contains works from a variety of disciplines for a multitude of clients in a broad array of industries. Iridium Interactive's creative team prides itself on being generalists capable of executing work in all fields that design encompasses.