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The Hindi blogosphere is the online community of weblogs in Hindi language that are a part of the larger Indian blogosphere.
Alok Kumar is known as the first Hindi blogger. [1] His blog नौ दौ ग्यारह (9-2-11) was the first known Hindi blog. He coined the term Chittha (Hindi : चिट्ठा) for blog. This term was quickly adopted by other bloggers, and later became the standard Hindi term. Because of the difficulties involved in typing Hindi script, very few people used it online. However, later, the availability of Hindi typing tools, the number of Hindi bloggers began to grow.
In 2007, the number of Hindi blogs increased rapidly. This was due to the advent of Indic Unicode support in various blogging services, the introduction of new Hindi typing tools like Google Indic Transliteration tool in Blogger, and the promotion of Hindi blogging in the mainstream media. [2]
Some of the most popular Hindi bloggers are women. In April 2013, there were more than 50,000 Hindi blogs, one-fourth of which were written by female bloggers. [3]
Most early Hindi blogs were personal, there were only a few topic-focused blogs. During 2007, the number of Hindi blogs increased rapidly and blogs began covering various topics such as cinema, technology, science, hobbies, and photography. In 2010, The Wall Street Journal started a Hindi blog called India Real Time and ending in 2017, which covered news, sports, Bollywood, politics and business. [4] [5]
The Parikalpna Award is a literary award for blogs in India. It is presented by the magazine Parikalpnaa Samay and the company Parikalpnaa. [6]