Let’s accept it. Most of the educated lot has this popular perception that maximum accidents are caused by drivers who are illiterate or received very less education. We think that, in general, educated people...
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May 25, 2007
Opera website. Is it Hindi really?
WATBlog reports that Opera website has introduced a Hindi microsite. Looking at their website I wonder if what I was reading is Hindi indeed. “ओपेरा व्यवहार सबंधीय सुझाव एँव चालाकियोँ जानने के लिये ओपेरा समुह से मिलेँ”, If I ignore the punctuation mistakes, the phrase loosely translated back to English would mean, “To know Opera […]
May 15, 2007
Podbharti.com launches pure Hindi Podcasting service
I feel elated to tell you that I and follow Hindi blogger Shashi Singh have launched Podbharti, India’s first pure Hindi Podzine targeted towards Hindi audience in India and abroad, and providing a comprehensive coverage of News & Views about Indian language blogging, Tools & Technology, Current Affairs and the Entertainment Industry. Podbharti.com also declared […]
April 13, 2007
Google’s might!
This is not to undermine the effort Google India has put in to create the Hindi transliteration tool for Blogger.com, but the title of a recent post at the official blog, “Now you can blog in Hindi” sounds too haughty. Probably Google does not know (or chooses to ignore) that Hindi blogging started way back […]
April 3, 2007
DesiPundit Indibloggies Prizes Auction
Like the previous year, the good people at Desipundit, who won in the “Best Designed Indiblog” and “Best Directory/ Clique/ Service” categories, are auctioning their awards. The proceeds will be donated in entirety to Magic Bus, a nonprofit charitable organization that conducts developmental activities for children and young adults through the outdoors and sports. This […]
March 26, 2007
Bird Flu strikes again?
You may have noticed a sarkari advertisement doing the rounds on the Indian tele for almost two weeks now. The advertisement shows a sutradhaar along with a chicken puppet urging people to alert the government of any cases of unnatural death of chicken. It did alarm me coz there was no buzz in the newspapers […]
March 25, 2007
My interview at BhashaIndia
I had a nice chat recently with Bhasha India people on Indibloggies and Indic Blogging scene (although they spelled Indibloggies wrongly throughout in the published version). Bhasha India is doing a great job of proving knowledge and tools to disseminate the use of Indian languages over the internet. Do read it over here. Noted Hindi […]