If you are living in India and think you are a valauable professional then you  can nominate Yourself for the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional)  Award (India) the deadline for which is  April 18. The frequency for MVP awards are once every quarter mean that these are announced every 3 months to give a maximum chance to more people to be selected for this award. Many indian bloggers and other experts have already won this award.  You can visit the MVP directory for the existing batch of MVPs and their area of intrest and expertise.  These awards select the individuals who are seen as active participants in technical communities like blogs, Internet forums, user groups, wikis, conferences, and other related areas etc.

Microsoft specific knowledge or experties in microsoft products or technologies are essentially  not required to be an expert  to win an MVP award nor you should be an expert geek in any paticular field.  But For instance If you are in the field of technology blogging and you writes about web applications or consumer software you can be a good and potential MVP candidate.

For India based people to become a MVP, one needs to fill the nomination form avilable at MVP India site before the deadline as I mentioned above