Podbharti
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About Podbharti
Podbharti provides coverage of News & Views about Indian BlogosphereIndian Blogosphere
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, Indian language blog
Blog
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ging, Tools & technology
Technology
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reviews, Indian Culture and the Entertainment Industry. It was co-founded by Indian blogger duo Debashish Chakrabarty (better known as founder of the Indibloggies
Indibloggies
is an annual blog-award website targeted at Indian Blogs and was started as a parody clique on the . The site slogan says that it showcases the best of the Indian blogosphere...
) and Shashi Singh. Listeners have equated the experience of listening to the podcasts to 70's style radio
Talk radio
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, reminiscent of Vividh Bharti. The podcast content has a touch of journalism to it.
The first episode of Podbharti was released in May 2007 in which they presented a retrospective talk on Hindi blogging completing 4 years, a nipping primer on the Hindi Transliteration
Transliteration
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tool introduced by Google
Google
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in the Blogger.com service and a report on a controversy in the Hindi blogdom where discussions on communalism took an ugly turn adding bitterness to the whole debate.
Apart from downloading podcasts on music devices, users can also hear them online on Podbharti’s website.