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Nirantar July issue

By debashish • Jul 5th, 2005 • Category: Personal

The July issue of Nirantar is on the browsers now. Details are at Raman's blog post. Here are the highlights of the issue:

Charukesi investigates the Fairness cream phenomenon
Chandru recapitulates a day at an advertising agency
Vinay Jain dissects the Hindi goodies hurriedly released last month, by the Communication and IT Ministry.

All this with all the regular [...]



Nirantar's May Issue

By debashish • Jun 27th, 2005 • Category: Personal

The May issue of Hindi blogzine Nirantar is now on the browsers. In this issue you may read:

“Kya aap tagging karte hain?” an interesting overview of the newly emerging “tag folksonomy”, post Technorati tags. If you have never tag-ged before this is the article to read.
Nitin Pai awaits arrival of another Mahatma, this time [...]



Nirantar April issue, on the browsers

By debashish • Apr 18th, 2005 • Category: Personal

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?
Book excerpt in Hindi [...]



Ulcerative Collitis: Need Information

By debashish • Mar 5th, 2005 • Category: Personal

Fellow bloggers and readers, though I avoid posting very personal posts here this one is an exception. My mother has been suffering from Stomach ulcer (Ulerative Collitis) since almost 1.5 years. Recently she was advised to undergo surgery (ileopouch anastomosis). If you know any body who has undergone such a surgery kindly let me know [...]



Phew…

By debashish • Jan 25th, 2005 • Category: Personal

Months of activity, loads of brickbats (ranging from bad template — despite the excellent work by Chugs, poor management, disagreement with the methodology, rigging at the polls, being partisan to Hindi blogdom right unto being pooh-poohed on my anonymity and bad English) and now a breeze of praises, organizing Indibloggies was arduous compared to the [...]



Happy new year

By debashish • Jan 1st, 2005 • Category: Personal

Null Pointer wishes its readers and well wishers and their families a very happy and prosperous new year 2005.



More changes

By debashish • Aug 23rd, 2004 • Category: Personal

IndiBlogs seem to be bitten by lethargy mites. Jivha quit blogging and I myself has not been averse to the burnout. Last month was pretty hectic and brought along upheavals that shook me up completely. When I joined my last employer I was convinced that now I want to settle down there. I and my [...]



Sounds Grammar?

By debashish • Apr 15th, 2004 • Category: Personal

Readers, you have enough reasons for getting mad on me. Lately, I have not been posting nothing and then I had the courage to post the following, but the fact is I only feel like posting stuff like these. So bear with me (anyways, when you take the test yourself, you would feel a lot [...]



Political Compass

By debashish • Feb 2nd, 2004 • Category: Personal

Finally a gauge to enlighten me on the orientation of my thoughts. Political Compass tells me that I am an economic left winger with a slight inclination towards authoritarianism (score: Economic Left/Right: -3.88, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.05). A confirmed authoritarian leftist, wow! Though my score on the social dimension surprises me! [Link via Acorn]
Update: Wow! It’s [...]



My Hindi Blog

By debashish • Jan 19th, 2004 • Category: Personal

Finally, I had to jump into it. I have been a Hindi writer, it is the language in which I think. But since typing in Hindi is tedious I had somehow put the project on backburner; not any more. The Hindi version of Null Pointer is now live here. It is called “Nukta Chini” (meaning [...]