Hindi blogs showcased on DesiPundit

Patrix, who wanted the group blog DesiPundit to have some desi flavor true to its name, was kind enough to invite me to be a co-blogger. I was keen on Anup doing it as he reads more Hindi blogs than I do and manages Chittha Charcha a monthly round up on the major happenings in […]

Copy I will

Almost a year back, I had reached this site of one Dheeraj Rathi from the referrer logs to my home page at geocities. Now, my homepage is not a work of art, yet it is one of my original works. So it was natural to get startled by Dheeraj''s site, as it was a copy […]

Nirantar July issue

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 […]

Nirantar's May Issue

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 […]

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? […]

Ulcerative Collitis: Need Information

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 […]