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Aditya Kuber, a Pune based photographer,
writer & geek. After working for various media houses he set up Media Sphere Communications in 2007 that deals in custom publishing, content delivery and design. |
| Akhil Tandulwadikar from Hyderabad is an MBA and makes living as the Editor of a Healthcare magazine. Interests include writing, reading books, Photography and Cricket. |
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| Arzan Sam Wadia. Architect and Urban Designer, currently based in New York, but very much from Mumbai. He also publishes a popular blog Parsi Khabar. |
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Avinash Raghav, Regional Manager (North) at NASSCOM. He blogs at and manages the NASSCOM Emerge Forum, a 1400+ member community for the mid-sized. |
| Balendu Dadhich, heading leading Hindi news portal Prabhasakshi.com. He is a MVP and developer of a Hindi Word Processor ‘Madhyam’ among several other softwares. |
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Indra Awasthi, Oregon based, originally from UP and a Kolkatan by birth, He is an Engineering
graduate from Allahabad and infrequently blogs in Hindi. |
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Kaushik Narasimhan, an MTech from IIT-Bombay and a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kaushik is an avid reader and movie-watcher. |
| Kinshuk Sunil, an open source enthusiast, has been developing games since 2005, writing literature and organizing technology unconferences. He is an alumnus of Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi. |
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Lavanya Raj, a stay at home mom owning a
food related blog since the past 1 and half year. |
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Mayank Chandak, an engineering student at JUIT, Waknaghat majoring in computer science. But he calls that a side job as he is a tech enthusiast concerned about new web technologies and services. |
Megha Meshram, Software consultant, eye for all things nature and ear for all things music,
food-wine freak, highly opinionated, all that and more or less  |
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Mohan K, a media studies, psychology & English literature student from Christ University,
Bangalore. He has been a blogger for the past 5 years and is associated with the Centre for Social Action. |
Ninad Gujar, an engineer by training and a neuroscientist by profession; has a passion for
photography and travel. Also a budding entrepreneur and a citizen who wants
to create a social impact for the greater good. |
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Paras Sharma, 21 year old blogger from Mumbai, blogging since 2005, writer with Youth
magazine JAM since December 2007. Paras specializes in humor, poetry, music
and movie reviews. |
| Patrix, the founder of DesiPundit and author of popular blog Nerve Endings Firing Away. In the offline world, he is a doctoral student at Texas A&M majoring in Urban Planning. (Patrix volunteered only for the ‘Microblog category’) |
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Pradeep Chopra is a co-founder of OMLogic Consulting and Whizlabs Software, an IT education company. Whizlabs won NASSCOM’s Most Innovative Indian IT Company award in 2004. |
| Priya Venkateshan, just out of college and currently one of the millions of software engineers in Bangalore. As wanderlust she blogs about anything and everything that catches her fancy. |
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Ram Prasad Narsimhan, is experimenting with “early retirement” after working for over 12 years in corporate America. He wants to travel and plans to volunteer at NGO’s and organizations that could use his skills. |
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Rohit Sane, a second year IT student from Mumbai, blogging since 2006 on Blogs of different niches. |
| Shanti Mangala, is a long time blogger, known for starting the Bharteeya Blog Mela clique. A software engineer by profession she currently lives in Dallas. |
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Shweta L Khare, founder and president of Career bright – Career Coaching Services. Shweta is also the co-chair at the Career Resource Center at the India Community Center in Milpitas, California. |
T V Srinivas, 48 years old Assistant General Manager with RBI, actively involved in writing
poems, stories and articles on social problems in Kannada. |
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Like the previous year, the good people at Desipundit, who won in the “Best Designed Indiblog” and “Best Directory/ Clique/ Service” categories, are auctioning their awards. The proceeds will be donated in entirety to Magic Bus, a nonprofit charitable organization that conducts developmental activities for children and young adults through the outdoors and sports. This is an excellent gesture on the part of the Desipundit team and we laud their effort. For further details and to participate in the auction please click here. The auction ends on Thursday, April 5 2007 at 11:59pm CST.
