And while we received over 100 emails and SMSes congratulating us for a splendid anniversary issue (thank you for those encouraging messages), we were overwhelmed by the response to the contests. SMD received nearly 30,000 SMSes (29,971 to be exact) in less than 36 hours.

Here are the final list of winners. The system of selecting a winner, just to let you know, was completely transparent, with the SMD team choosing only random serial numbers of correct SMS replies, without knowledge of either the name, location or the phone number of a winner. Some of you may discover (to your great joy, we hope) that you have won more than one prize. We tried to keep it to one prize per winner, but when one is choosing 441 winners out of 29,971 SMSes, happy mistakes are bound to happen. Those of you who haven’t won, join so many of us, who too haven’t lucked out in lotteries so far. Better lucknext time.