Podbharati: India's First Hindi Podzine
Podbharati — पॉडभारती | India’s First Hindi Podzine, est. 2007
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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.

  • Date: 1 Apr, 2007
  • Role: Co-founder (2007) · Owner & Host (circa 2020)

Podbharati (पॉडभारती) is India’s first Hindi podzine — a podcast magazine launched in April 2007, aimed at Hindi-speaking audiences in India and abroad. Its debut show, now called Podbharati Classic, provided comprehensive coverage of Indian language blogging, technology, current affairs, and the entertainment industry — entirely in Hindi, at a time when Hindi podcasting did not exist as a category.

Podbharati was originally co-founded and co-hosted by Debashish Chakrabarty and Shashi Singh. The website, logo, banners, and artwork (both old and new) were designed and built by Debashish. Since May 2020, when the podcast moved to its present home at Podbharati.com, Debashish has run the venture independently.

New in 2025

New in 2025

Long before podcasting became mainstream in India, Debashish was already fascinated by the power of audio storytelling. An avid listener of All India Radio and an active quizmaster and master of ceremonies during his school and college years, stepping into podcasting felt like a natural progression.

In early 2007, he launched Podbharati, becoming one of India’s early independent podcasters. At a time when podcasting was virtually unknown in the country, he invested in professional recording equipment, experimented with the medium, and spent years learning every aspect of podcast creation—from recording and editing to publishing, audience building, and promotion. Along the way, he also established himself as a voice-over artist, further deepening his understanding of audio production.

Believing that knowledge is most valuable when shared, Debashish distilled nearly two decades of experience in podcasting & voice-over space into “पॉडकास्टिंग कैसे करें?”, a comprehensive Hindi guide for both aspiring and experienced podcasters. The book covers everything from choosing the right equipment and recording on a budget to growing an audience, monetising a podcast, and leveraging modern AI tools to create better content.

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A Platform With Many Lives

Podbharati’s journey across platforms is itself a document of the evolution of digital audio hosting in India:

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2007

Launch on Blip.tv

Podbharati’s earliest episodes were hosted on Blip.tv, one of the few platforms at the time that could host large audio and video files. The original domain was Podbharti.com (note the missing ‘a’), purchased by Shashi.
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2007–2012

Podbazaar Era

Hosting moved to Podbazaar.com, a pioneering Indian podcast hosting platform, founded by California-based Sujatha Jagannathan.

On Podbazaar, Podbharati hosted two feeds:

These numbers are significant given the dismal internet speeds of the era and the fact that audio streaming had not yet arrived.

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2012

Domain Expiry & File Recovery

When Podbharti.com expired in 2012 and Podbazaar.com also shut down the same year, and no proper backups, many original MP3 file recordings of our podcast disappeared. Using his personal archives and the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, Debashish retrieved the original files and moved them to SoundCloud thus preserving the historical record of India’s first Hindi podcast.
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2020

Relaunch as Podbharati.com

In May 2020, Debashish registered the new domain Podbharati.com and relaunched the venture as a full podcast platform — no longer a single show but a home for multiple Hindi podcast series. New shows are hosted on Anchor.fm (now Spotify for Creators), with YouTube channel and Instagram channels added in July 2020 featuring podcast episodes, videos, and Shorts.

Our Shows

Podbharati Classic

Podbharati Classic

The original Hindi podzine that started it all — covering Indian language blogging, internet technology, current affairs, and entertainment. Episodes are now archived on SoundCloud.   Listen →


Sopaan — सोपान

Sopaan — सोपान

A career guidance podcast in Hindi — helping professionals navigate job transitions, interview preparation, career growth, and the modern workplace. One of Podbharati’s flagship shows on the new platform.   Listen →


Mike Testing

Mike Testing

A conversational show exploring a wide range of topics — from technology and society to culture and curiosity. The name captures the experimental, unscripted spirit of the show.   Listen →


Mathelogic

Mathelogic

A show at the intersection of mathematics, logic, and everyday thinking — making abstract concepts accessible and engaging for a general Hindi-speaking audience.   Listen →

Podcast Parikrama

In September 2021, Debashish launched Podcast Parikrama — a Hindi Substack newsletter covering the world of audio and podcasting globally. It now has over 700 subscribers and is one of the few dedicated Hindi-language resources for the podcasting community in India.

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Press Coverage & Citations

Media Coverage

  • Agency FAQs (May 2007) — “Hindi podcasts debut with Podbharati launch” — one of the first national media mentions of Hindi podcasting
  • Agency FAQs (Sep 2007)“With regional languages, more people from smaller towns will take up blogging as they are more comfortable in their own language”
  • Gyaansutra“Hindi bloggers couldn’t have stayed far behind… here comes a great new website called PodBharati.com which gives you podcasts purely in Hindi”
  • ZDNet India — Early coverage of the Hindi podcasting phenomenon
  • Times of India, Bangalore (May 2008) — “Podcasting to be a rage in India”
  • DNA Pune (Nov 2008) — “Ideas that change lives eye Tata Awards” — Podbharati nominated for TATA NEN Hottest Startup Awards
  • Pune Mirror (Sep 2008) — “Star(t) Ups!”
  • Tech2 / TV-18 — Coverage of Hindi podcasting
  • Aloo Techie — Feature on Podbharati

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