Sunil Shivaji Khandbahale | |
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Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Sloan School of Management |
Occupation(s) | Founder & CEO, KHANDBAHALE.COM Founder & CEO, KHANDBAHALE.ORG Founder & Secretary, Global Prosperity Foundation Co-Founder & President, Kumbhathon |
Website | sunilkhandbahale |
Sunil Shivaji Khandbahale (born 1 June 1978) is an innovator and entrepreneur from Nashik, India. [1] He is the founder and CEO of KHANDBAHALE.COM, a free multilingual digital dictionary and translation platform for 23 languages, with a vocabulary of 10 million words and phrases. [2] [3] [4] He is a technology and innovation columnist. [5] [6] [7]
Khandbahale was born in Nashik. [8] He could not afford to enroll at a computer training institute after graduating high school, and so borrowed books and computer from his friend and taught himself programming.[ citation needed ]
Khandbahale developed a dictionary search engine program for Marathi. [9] He continued compiling dictionaries, and in 2005, set up an online dictionary portal, khandbahale.com, for various Indian languages. [10] [2] He is Sloan Fellow and earned a masters in business management MBA degree at MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [11]
In 2012, he launched 12 Language Dictionary on 12 December 2012 at 12 hours, 12 minutes and 12 seconds. [12] [13] In early 2013 Khandbahale launched his twelve-languages dictionary on an SMS platform. [14] His Languages Apps are also available on the Android platform. [15] [16]
He also founded KHANDBAHALE.ORG, an organization which develops language-related projects such as Global Language Networking, Global Language Heritage, Global Language Friendship, Global Language Environment. He is a founder and secretary of the Global Prosperity Foundation, an NGO that focused on education, health and environment. In 2013 he was given an award as a youth icon by the Maharashtra Times. [17] [18] On 27 December 2013, he co-founded Kumbhathon [19] [20] with MIT Professor Ramesh Raskar, an innovation platform to spot problems and probe solutions in Nashik. [21] [22] [23] [24] In 2014, in conjunction with Mumbai University, he started developing an English to Sanskrit thesaurus for use with mobile phones. [25] He had also developed Marathi language spellchecker software. [26] [27]
During the global pandemic time of covid-19, he developed a musical therapy technology tool Samaysangit.App as a solution for mental health based on time based Indian classical music raga theory., [28] [29] [30] He was instrumental in Nashik Kumbh Mela 2015 through Kumbhathon. [31] [32] [33] [24]
While he was on his spiritual journey at Alandi (Devachi), Pune, he launched first ever 24x7 (Akhand) Online Dnyaneshwari Radio with the blessings of Shri Kisan Maharaj Sakhare [34] and Vijay P. Bhatkar. [35] [36] As a student of Central Sanskrit University Delhi, he started Sanskritbharati Internet Community Radio as a all time listening platform for the Sanskrit language students. [37] He wrote Godavari Aarti and build a water innovation technology platform titled Godavariaarti.org for global collaboration on water issues. [38] [39] [40]