Debashish Chakrabarty, a Software Consultant based at Pune, has been on the Internet since the “geocities” days but opened his Blogger account in October 2002. Apart from this blog he also maintains a Hindi blog NuktaChini.

Free Sun Certified Java Associate exam

Just heard about this new Sun certification exam. The beta version of the exam, with a whopping 122 questions to be answered in 3 hours, is being offered free from June 20 for a month. I am not sure why Sun went for this, an exam for entry level programmers and IT managers with just […]

Those things

Chugs makes this restrained comment on Bollywood actress Mallika's much hyped wardrobe at Cannes. Not only are “those things” fake, she has managed to push them up to her nose! Whom is she trying to fool? We all know gravity exists on Earth. Very apt Chugs! IMHO, Mallika actually succeeded at what Simi Garewal and […]

Mushu Mushu haasi

“Mushu Mushu haasi deo” must be the song on the lips of the Indian diplomats who were all gaga over the recent paltry visit of the Pakistani Dictator. I think if it achieved something, it was the dilution of the tough stance against cross-border terrorism, the existence of which was gradually being acknowledged publicly by […]

World's first Hindi blogzine

I feel elated in presenting Nirantar, World's first Hindi blogzine. It has been the result of untiring efforts of so many Hindi bloggers, and prominently that of Pankaj Narula, Jitendra Chaudhary, Anup Shukla, Ravishankar Shrivastava, Atul Arora and Raman Kaul but I must say that the fire kindled in the Hindi blogging community for strengthening […]

Hindi blogzine : The time has come

It seems the Hindi blogdom will soon realize its dream of creating a Hindi blogzine, “Nirantar“. The monthly blogzine on the anvil has the mission to chronicle the blogdom in general with an emphasis on the Indian language blogging scenario. However, the magazine, hopefully, would not be confined to topics related to blogging alone. We […]

Nirantar April issue, on the browsers

The April issue of Nirantar was released on April 3, 2005. In this issue you may read: Mark Glaser's commentary on the recent Mediaah Blog TOI tussle An interview with Hemant Sharma, the lesser known author of the popular Hindi Unicode editor Tahkti Second part of the interesting series on using Firefox discusses ?Live Bookmarks? […]