Podbharti ~ Hindi Podcast

Episode 9

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:33:54 -0800

In this episode we present

A curtain raiser on the community and campus radio scene in India discusses the benefits of community radio, details the bottlenecks in its developments and predict its future

Unmukt explains to her daughter-in-law on why he creates his podcast in Ogg Vorbis format rather than MP3

and lastly, a beautiful Hindi song from the pop-album "America mein India" by two promising singers, who also happen to be sibs.

Episode 8

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:00:32 -0700

The 8th Episode of popular Hindi podcast Podbharti features:

A report on the fight against corruption waged by a senior IAS officer in India and how his wife Jayshree became a whistle-blower. Jayashree not only stood by her husband’s side during difficult times but also created a Wiki to counter the threats received from the corrupt bureaucrats who were being exposed. Jayashree not only used the Right to Information (RTI) act to her favor but also helps other vi...

Episode 5

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:06:45 -0800

In this episode

A talk on the Water crisis in India by Vikas Mishra, editor, Dainik Bhaskar

Two heart-rendered songs on water conservation by famous playback and Ghazal singer Bhupinder Singh and Raghunath Saran

Senior Journalist Seema Anant from Mumabi talks on the injustice done to super-cop Kiran Bedi and raises the wider issue of Women rights

and finally, Neeru Kothari reports from London on the aftermath of the Glasgow issue

Episode 6

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:05:31 -0800

In this episode

Neeru Kothari with news from Europe

With the advent of Web2.o people have been talking about Rich Client, many companies making us believe that our browser is also our PC now. Ravishankar Shrivastava reviews the recently launched Nivio.com

and last but not the least a special presentation on the 60th Indian Independence day, in which you can hear a rare recording of Nobel Laureate Dr Rabindranath Tagore.

Episode 7

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:03:19 -0800

The 7th episode features

Unique uses of the GTalk Status messages
A feature on the recently released documentary movie "Black Pamphlets" made by a Delhi University student Nitin on the student election scene in Delhi Universtities
A feature by Yunus Khan on the talent of great Indian Music Director Madan Mohan and his creayive world.

Episode 4

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:06:08 -0700

Episode 4 features

An audio summary of the Indian movie Gadar, based on the premise of India Pakistan partition.

An interview with Anshul Samar, a young boy based at the Silicon Valley who is also a young CEO of his company Elementeo that aims to teach Chemistry through card-games.

And lastly exceprt from a beautiful song penned by Canada based Hindi blogger Sameer Lal.

Episode 3

Sun, 20 May 2007 23:40:17 -0700

In this episode:

Last year Reliance’s foray into the retail market through “Reliance Fresh” chain of super markets faced a lot of initial opposition from small time businessmen and retailers. Retailers protested and damaged their stores at Ranchi and at several other places. Podbharti did a though provoking story on the subject, trying to see both sides of the coin. Featured in the report are the opinions of Hindi bloggers Aflatoon and Alok Puranik. Aflatoon is an activist of Samajwadi Janaparishad party while Alok is an economist and satirist and a proponent of Free market economy.

Episode 2

Mon, 14 May 2007 11:39:09 -0700

A special issue on the Mother's day features the plight of the children of the prostitutes from Pune, Bhojpuri songs on Mother and much more.

Episode 1

Tue, 08 May 2007 07:27:12 -0700

In April 2007 debut episode, hosted by Debashish, Podbharti presents: The Hindi blogdom completes 4 years of existence this month. The duration probably is insignificant the blogdom has seen lot of developments and has grown manifold. Popular Hindi blogger Anup Shukla presents a bird’s eye view of the journey so far. The recent introduction of Google’s Hindi transliteration tool at Blogger.com has created a lot of buzz amongst people who were either unaware of Hindi blogging or were wary of blogging in the language. Tech guru Ravishankar Shrivastava provides a primer on the tool that has gives a new dimension to the Indic blogging scene. Mohalla is a new entrant in the Hindi blogdom and gained popularity for all the wrong reasons. The innocent anecdotes on communalism were blown into endless debates which went from bitter to gruesome. Shashi Singh has a special report on the Mohalla Controversy where he ponders on things that went wrong and what should be done to bring an end to the...

Podbharti Episode 1

Wed, 02 May 2007 08:27:13 -0700