Podbharti is India's first pure Hindi Podzine targeted towards Hindi audience in India and abroad. It provides comprehensive coverage of News & Views about Indian language blogging, tools & technology, current affairs and the entertainment industry.

Podbharti plans to make money from advertising on its website and through audio advertisements (ad jingles). We have further plans to:

(i) Do paid product reviews

(ii) Sell podcasts as on-demand CDs

(iii) Partner with FM radio stations/ Rich Media Websites for playing our podcasts.

(iv) Offer premium services for covering events & promotions. Start additional audio services such as conversion of Blog posts to Audio posts.

Rather than being "apne munh miyan mitthu"" we would rather copy-paste here, some reviews done for Podbharti.com:

(1) The audio quality is great (having done podcasting myself, I can tell you that this is not easy, specially if you are recording over the internet). Moreover, the tone and style of the podcast is highly reminiscent of 1970-80s styl...> Read more..

Rather than being "apne munh miyan mitthu"" we would rather copy-paste here, some reviews done for Podbharti.com:

(1) The audio quality is great (having done podcasting myself, I can tell you that this is not easy, specially if you are recording over the internet). Moreover, the tone and style of the podcast is highly reminiscent of 1970-80s style radio, somewhat like Amin Sayani's famous shows. Read through the comments on Podbharti's posts and you will realize that this audience is clearly savoring the podcast's content & style.

(Amit at Webyantra http://www.webyantra.net/2007/06/10/podbhartifirst-hindi-podcast-channelreminds-of-1970s-style-radio/)

(2) I stumbled on to Podbharti quite by accident and was instantly hooked. These are two very committed and talented youngsters and I wish them all the best. I have listened with pleasure and attention to all their podcasts so far.

(G. Vishwanath, a listner from Bangalore who can't read Hindi but enjoys spoken Hindi, http://www.startupdunia.com/2007/08/08/podbharti-hindi-podcasting/)

(3) They have a very unique and distinctive style to their podcasts. The pocasts kind of take you back in time, reminiscent of how some of the AIR - Vividh Bharati radio shows sounded. They cover a variety of current issues that affect the Indian society. The content is pretty insightful and has a touch of serious journalism to it. Debashish and Shashi have been doing a great job at evangelizing online Hindi content and PodBharti is a great extension of their efforts.

Localization of content will be a key enabler of Internet adoption in India. And PodBharti is a great step in that direction.

Go, listen to one of their episodes. You'll thoroughly enjoy it - well worth your time. (Pranav Dharma, Startup Dunia, http://www.startupdunia.com/2007/08/08/podbharti-hindi-podcasting/)

(4) If you can understand Hindi, PodBharti is one show you just cannot afford to miss - excellent production quality, content delivery and choice of topics. I can imagine the effort that goes into producing this show and considering that Deb, Shashi & co. are doing it out of their love for Hindi and Blogging, this is commendable.

(Popular technology blogger Amit Agarwal, http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/best-hindi-podcast-show-india/1137)

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The passion of creating a different kind of content, Contentment from watching proliferation of Hindi on the Internet, Fondness for the audio medium. (Debashish wanted to be a broadcaster, he was even selected by Radio Mirchi for its first FM Radio station at Indore but didn't join them, Shashi as been involved with audio content generation for mobile users and has been a journalist. He also dabbled in bhojpuri podcasting and was covered by CNN IBN at that time)