Nirantar is the world's first Hindi language blogzine.  Congratulations Debashish and the whole team.  Am proud to be a part of the first issue - Debashish has done a fine job of translating into Hindi, the article I did on the Indian Blogging Scene. And there's also the Hindi blog radio, Blognaad, that has audioblogs.  Pretty cool stuff.  Try it if you want to sample some spoken Hindi !

I'll be posting the article I did in English for the cover story soon.  

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Did I forget to mention that in between all my client projects, I've been meeting lots and lots of bloggers.  Its been a wonderfully rich 'meetings with bloggers' couple of months.  Started off with an entertaining evening with a bunch of Bombay Bloggers where among much coffee and guppa, I gained some insight into Libertarianism - cartels that speak of ''individual choice'' - don't ask me to spell that out more :):). 

Rajesh, Hemant (my husband who btw is a blog-spouse and not a blogger himself) and I had a lovely evening with Ethan and his wife Rachel who were in Bombay for a night. The place was nice, food was good and the company awesome. They went on to Rajasthan, Delhi and Agra and Rachel has an amazing account of their travels with loads of photos.

The very next day I met up with Pip Coburn of UBS, who I had earlier come across as the co-host of Jerry's Weekly Yi-Tan Calls.  He was in Bombay for NASSCOM.  We had a fun evening walking barefoot on Juhu beach, then some sea-food at my favourite restaurant followed up by coffee at Mocha.  We shared our experiences and wonder at how social technologies can and do bring greater collaboration among groups.  And talked about lots of other things - Pip has triplets - wow !

On Wednesday, Rohit spent the day with Andy Carvin of the Digital Divide Network, showing him around Bombay.  Andy's here to attend the Baramati conference. I met them for a couple of hours between meetings with clients who are visiting from the US on the year-long ethnographies I have been doing.  Over paninis and raspberry drinks and a cherry-flavoured hookah, we talked about the difference between Bombay and Delhi, about podcasting and mobcasting, and Andy did some quick on-the-spot podcasts as we spoke.     

Jerry Michalski is in Bombay from Saturday through Tuesday - Jerry, am going to try my damnest to be back in Bombay from Delhi before you leave for Bangalore !

Later this month, some of the Worldchanging contributors and my friend and fellow researcher Simon Roberts of Ideas Bazaar are going to be in Delhi for Doors of Perception.  I really hope I can make it there too. 

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