Argalaa
a magazine of jansamvedna and Hindi literature of 21st century
Management & Technical Team
Devendra Pushker, MTech
Devendra Pushker has a Master of Technology degree in Computer Networking from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal. He received Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science & Engineering from IILM Academy of Higher Learning, Greater Noida. He is expert in web designing using Drupal and other Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Joomla. He is expert in Web 2.0 standards and experienced with web technologies such as JQuery. He is also experienced with Adobe products related to graphics and publishing. Currently he is working as Knowledge Based Model Developer at QSI Healthcare, Bangalore, India.
He feels bad when people feel proud in speaking English at malls, banks and restaurants in India. Of course knowing a language or culture should make one proud but that should not indicate that other languages are inferior to it. In India we sometimes feel that when we speak Hindi it means that we are not highly educated or we are not from good background. He totally disagrees with it and the show of inferiority for Hindi in India inspired him to be a part of Argalaa.
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Renu Gautam, MTech
Renu Gautam has a Master of Technology degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology and Bachelor of Technology from IEC College of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida. She has worked as a Software Engineer at VMware, Bangalore, India which is a multinational company having customer presence in more than 100 countries. At Argalaa she is involved in Web Based Testing and Content Management System. She has worked as Summer Intern at Evolutionary Genomics Group, University of Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain. Currently she is working as Senior Test Engineer/Test Lead at Nous Infosystems, a CMMi Level 5 company based in Bangalore, India.
Many of us don't know that India doesn't have any national language. Even after declaring Hindi as the official language of the Union in Article 343 of the Constitution, most of the educated people communicate in English whereas it is stated in the constitution that "It shall be the duty of the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language". My involvement in Argalaa is to promote Hindi language for common man and to spread awareness among the people of India so that Hindi should get a place it deserves. As it is a collective responsibility of all Indian citizens to move forward and make a concrete effort to popularize Hindi not only in India but at a global level too. She is not the first one to initiate this but she does not want to be the last one.
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Volunteers
Vikram Singh, BA
Vikram Singh has been working as Computer Operator/Office Assistant/Supervisor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi since 1998. He has more than three years of work experience as a Hindi Stenographer at All India Radio. He has worked for Delhi University and Indian Institute of Mass Communication. He is expert in Hindi typing in all type of Hindi fonts and equally expert in Unicode. He can use IPA and other phonetic transcriptions. He has been helping with the typing since Argalaa first issue. He has good knowledge of Hindi language and expertize in proof reading.
Ravi Pratap Singh, BSc
Ravi Pratap Singh has Bachelor of Science in Botany and Chemistry from University of Allahabad, the fourth oldest university of India. He is currently a final year student of Bachelor of Pharmacy from HIMT College of Pharmacy, Greater Noida. He has been involved with Argalaa second issue onwards. He has been taking care of typing support.
Abhimanyu, BA
Abhimanyu has BA degree in Political Sciene and MLT from Saharsa College, Saharsa, Bihar. He has also done a course on Pushto language from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Pushto is an Indo-European language spoken mainly in Afghanistan and northwestern of Pakistan. He has helped in Argalaa first and second issue.
Previously he has done translations, script writing for documentry films and news story writing for news media. He has written a script for a telefilm for Kadam Films and also assisted in direction. He has done translation and script writing for a French media and news production firm Le Full Power,. He has worked with many Non Government Organizations (NGO) and has been atively involved in social activities. He has worked as co-organizer for PACS (Poorest Area Civil Society) of United Nation Millenium Development Program (UNDP) and also worked for development alternatives. For social activities he has travelled to many cities in India.
Sunil Kutar, MCA
Sunil Kutar has Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree from Sikkim Manipal University and Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) degree from Allahabad Agriculture Institute, a deemed university. After graduation he worked at ICICI Bank, Allahabad for one year. For the past one year he is staying in New Delhi and he likes to talk to people who love literature and languages especially Hindi literature and Spanish language. He has also learnt some Spanish through friends at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was involved with Argalaa first and second issue.