My Creations
Some of the Websites and Utilities that I created over the years
The Indibloggies
The Indibloggies was an annual blog-award clique for Indian Blogs. Indibloggies hosted 5 editions between 2003-2008 and became quite popular and is still regarded as prestigious by the winners.
Chittha Vishwa — India's First Hindi Blog Aggregator
Chittha Vishwa was the first-ever aggregator of Hindi blogs — a hobby project built on free Java hosting that tracked Hindi blog feeds, blogger profiles, trivia, and community statistics at a time when no such resource existed.
Podbharati: India's First Hindi Podzine
Founded in April 2007 Podbharati is India's first Hindi podcast magazine. It was relaunched in 2020 as a full podcast platform with multiple shows covering careers, technology, current affairs, and entertainment.
Samayiki: Hindi Webzine
Samayiki.com is a pioneering Hindi webzine covering science, technology, socio-economic issues, cinema, and politics — one of India's earliest platforms for quality digital Hindi content.
Nirantar: World's First Hindi Blogzine
Nirantar.org is the world's first Hindi blogzine — a pioneering community-driven Hindi web magazine founded in 2005, blending blogging, professional writing, and citizen journalism into a single collaborative platform.
Null Pointer: English Blog
Null Pointer (nullpointer.debashish.com) is Debashish's English blog that begun in October 2002, covering technology, internet culture, blogging, politics, and life in India. Originally hosted on JRoller, it is possibly one of India's earliest personal technology blogs.
Buno Kahani
Buno Kahani (बुनो कहानी) — Hindi for “weave a story” was a joint storytelling experiment where different writers took turns adding to a developing narrative thread.
Nuktachini — Pioneer Hindi Blog
Nuktachini (nuktachini.debashish.com) is one of the earliest Hindi blogs ever published — the 4th Hindi blog in existence — founded in 2004 during the very dawn of Hindi blogging in India.
Bangla Test Blog: Facilitated Bengali Unicode Blogging
A collaborative experiment with the first-ever Bangla blogger to demonstrate that Bengali Unicode text could be published on Blogger, at a time when nobody knew how to do it.
Surkhiyan & Daily Songbaad — Vernacular News Aggregators
Surkhiyan (Hindi) and Daily Songbaad (Bengali) were lightweight news aggregator blogs that curated RSS feeds from major Hindi and Bengali online news sources respectively — bringing regional language headlines to readers in one place.
Bangla Blogs Directory
A web-joint to discover Bengali blogs. It was active from 2006 to 2014.
Aavaran: Hindi Templates for Blogger
Aavaran was a repository of ready-to-use Hindi Blogger templates — one of the first such resources on the web, created at a time when Google's Blogger platform had no native Indic language support.