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Created on 2004-03-26 02:52:15 (#2630042), last updated 2005-07-15

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Name:	Debashish Chakrabarty
Location:	Pune, India
Website:	http://www.debashish.com

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Debashish Chakrabarty, a Software Consultant by profession and an Electrical Enginner by qualification, is based at Pune, India. He has been blogging in English as well as Hindi since 2002. He launched the first desi blog-awards called the Indibloggies and created the first ever Hindi blog aggregator Chittha Vishwa. He publishes a Hindi blogzine Nirantar, maintains the Bangla and Hindi blog directories and occassionaly dabbles in Hindi podcasting at Podbharti. Debashish has also been a DMOZ editor and contributing towards localization of softwares such as Wordpress, Gregarious, Pebble, IndicJoomla, IJoomla, Scuttle, Snap Shots, Blog Bar, among others. He has also been instrumental in beginning initiatives like Buno Kahani, a group blog where various authors literally weave a story and Anugunj - a web event hosted in turn by Hindi bloggers - where various bloggers write on a given topic. He also regularly contributes to the Hindi Wikipedia and the Hindi Lingua project of Global Voices. [More details]