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June 9th, 2008

BlogCamp Delhi - Enlightening and entertaining!

Amit Gupta · 09:46

24th May 2008 was sort of a remarkable day in the blogging circle in New Delhi and National Capital Region as Indian Blog and New Media Society, in collaboration with its local partners Delhi Blog and New Media Society, organised Delhi's first BlogCamp. Months of planning and organising didn't go ... 2 comments · »»

March 24th, 2008

World Water Day Ripples Across Videos.

Juliana Rincón Parra · 22:42

lingua → mk · mg

Every year since the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, on March 22nd has been the World Water Day. In addition, this year it is the United Nation´s International Year of Sanitation and people from all over have started taking action through their video cameras, raising awareness at the importance of this finite resource. 0 comments · »»

March 7th, 2008

Hindi: Cricket victory and foodie delights in Old Delhi

Amit Gupta · 13:17

Every Indian cricket fan is over the moon as India handed down two successive defeats to four times and current world champions Australia in first two (of three) final matches of the Commonwealth Bank Series which saw the third team Sri Lanka make a flamboyant exit by defeating Australia in ... 0 comments · »»

February 22nd, 2008

Hindi: No smoking and Cricket Auctions

Amit Gupta · 12:48

lingua → bn · es

Amit Gupta takes us on a tour of the latest from the Hindi blogosphere, including bad news for male smokers, good news for cricket fans in Hyderabad, and hopeful news regarding the effort to curb the spread of AIDS. 0 comments · »»

February 12th, 2008

Hindi: Water, dowry, the stock market and others

Amit Gupta · 18:41

lingua → es · zht · zhs

Global Warming is something thats affecting us all. But even in this regard there are different camps. Some believe that its a very important concern and something should be done about it while some believe that its not as big or critical concern as is made out of it and ... 0 comments · »»

February 10th, 2008

Hindi Blogosphere: Ad Revenue, Bollywood and other stories

Amit Gupta · 19:47

lingua → bn · es

A number of bloggers writing in English have no problem in putting up adverts and a lot of them generate decent enough revenue from their blogs. But the problem comes when you don't blog in English but in some other language as your advertising options start narrowing down. Ad revenue ... 1 comment · »»

October 1st, 2007

Hindi: Cricket in the air and a martyr is remembered!

Amit Gupta · 13:02

lingua → hi

It seemed as if all hell had broken loose on the evening of 24th September here in Delhi when Sreesanth took that catch of Misabh-ul-Haq that sealed for India the first ever Twenty20 World Cup!! I'd hardly blinked an eye and all of my neighbourhood was rocking with the wizzes ... 3 comments · »»

July 13th, 2007

Hindi Blogosphere: A brouhaha, customer service and blogger meets!

Amit Gupta · 20:16

So it's after about one and a half month that we are looking at what has been going on in Hindi blogosphere. The dust had barely settled down when it rose again, this time on the issue of expulsion of a blog from the leading Hindi blog aggregator, Narad. For ... 2 comments · »»