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Bloggerati of the fortnight: Kiruba Shankar

Monday, February 9th, 2015

Bloggerati Image - Kiruba ShankarCurrent Position and Organization:
Business Blogging Pvt Ltd, F5ive Technologies, Verdure Books
Educational Background:
Bangalore University
Blog Name: kiruba.com

 

 

Kiruba Shankar is an entrepreneur, social media consultant, speaker, author, teacher, podcaster and a farmer. He is the CEO of BusinessBlogging, a social media consultant firm, based out of Chennai, India. He is one of Asia’s foremost experts in Digital strategies, bringing in 16 years of work experience in the online space. He is a serial entrepreneur having started new ventures in diverse fields. Kiruba.com accumulates his works and blogs.

Prior to his entrepreneurship role, he was Associate Director of Sulekha.com and a senior manager at Sify.

He is a passionate agriculturist and farms at Vaksana, his 7 Acre farm. Being passionate about books, he started a publishing company called Verdure Books.

He has authored 4 books and is working on the next. He runs various projects like Kiruba TV, Kiruba FM, Cerebrate, Sponge etc. He is passionate about comics, antiques, vinyl records, business cards, running, cycling, rowing, traveling and blogging.

He has been a technology columnist at The New Indian Express, Business Standard and Financial Express. Kiruba is passionate about teaching.  He is the Ambassador for TEDx program for India and has helped organize TEDxChennai. He is the curator of Cerebrate.in, an international event for achievers. A professional podcaster, he hosts Kiruba.TV where he interviews global achievers. BusinessWorld magazine once ranked his blog Kiruba.com as one of India’s top blogs.

The latest and upcoming new trends, topics that he shares through his blogs and articles everytime for his readers & the industry across, entitles him to be our Bloggerati of the fortnight.

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Bloggerati of the fortnight: Sidin Vadukut

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014

imageCurrent Position and Organization:
HT Media Ltd, Mint
Educational Background:
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Blog Name: Domain Maximus

 

 

Sidin Vadukut is a columnist, writer and blogger from India. He is currently the managing editor of LiveMint.com. He is the author of the best-selling novel, Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin Einstein Varghese. One of the early bloggers from India, Sidin’s blog Domain Maximus rose to sudden fame with his Travails of Single South Indian Men of Conservative Upbringing piece.

After graduating, with a few free months before he started work at a factory in Chennai, he began to write long, digression-full email newsletters to a few dozen batchmates. It had movie reviews, random essays, thoughts, ruminations, jokes, bad jokes, poor jokes, abysmally poor jokes. In October 2002, someone showed him this blogging platform called Blogger by Pyra Labs. And he thought it was awesome.

He has done his engineering from REC and his MBA from IIM-A. One of the early bloggers from India, he also writes for mainstream media.

He writes the hugely popular column, Cubiclenama, a humorous take on corporate life and mainstream corporate culture for Mint Lounge. He regularly contributes to various websites including Mint and ESPN CricInfo.

Seeing the current scenario and quality of Indian blogs, he feels that with the number of talented writers out there we should have more multi-author blogs for politics, books, culture and so on. Also it would be awesome if there were good sports blogs; especially for cricket.

The latest and upcoming, new trends, topics related to corporate life and mainstream corporate culture, that he shares through his blogs and articles everytime for his readers & the industry across, entitles him to be our Bloggerati of the fortnight.

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Bloggerati of the fortnight: Varun Krishnan

Friday, October 17th, 2014

imageCurrent Position and Organization:
Blogger, Founder and CEO of FoneArena
Educational Background:
St. Michael’s Academy
Blog Name: FoneArena.com

 

 

Varun Krishnan, residing in Chennai, Tamil Nadu is the blogger, Founder and Editor-in-Chief at FoneArena.com, which is the leading Mobile Phones blog in India. Varun is probably one of the biggest fans of mobile phones and gadgets. He is currently in his mission of finding the ‘perfect phone’, so he ends up buying almost all the phones that make its way into the market.

When Varun was in his college, he wanted to purchase a cellphone. He went to the mobile phone vendors but didn’t get much information about the model from the vendors. This instigated him to start his own online cellphone portal, FoneArena.com – one of the leading websites in India for mobile consumers as well as tech enthusiasts.

In the year 2009, Varun took blogging as his full time profession. He, along with a dedicated team of Mobile Phone Geeks, took FoneArena.com to new heights. Now, FoneArena.com is one of the most influential and well known Gadgets based blog across the nation. FoneArena.com also grabbed the Most Popular Telecom Website in India award in the year 2009.

FoneArena.com delivers all the information about the latest mobile phone as well as Services. The main categories at FoneArena.com include Price List, Phones etc. It includes details about almost all the mobile phone brands which include Nokia, Sony Ericson, Samsung, Motorola, HTC, LG, BlackBerry, Sagem, Haier, HP, Spice, Fly and Apple.

FoneArena.com tries to deliver the latest coverage from diverse fields such as computers, camera, robotics and other space, which involves electronics, computers and mechanics.

The latest and upcoming, new trends related to technology, mobile, gadgets and product reviews that he shares through his blog everytime for his readers & tech & telecom industry enthusiasts across, entitles him to be our Bloggerati.

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Bloggerati of the fortnight: Bhumika Thakkar

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014

imageCurrent Position and Organization:
Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary, Certified Financial Manager, Blogger
Educational Background:
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Blog Name:  newlove-makeup.com

 

 

Bhumika Thakkar is a Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary and a Certified Financial Manager by profession but a Beauty, Fashion and Lifestyle Blogger by passion. Based out of Mumbai, she is blogging since almost 4 years now. Bhumika’s love for makeup, skin, fashion and all things pretty inspired her to come up with her blog newlove-makeup.com. Its basically an Indian Beauty, Fashion & Lifestyle Blog that covers posts on makeup brands, skincare brands and outfit posts. She loves reading, dancing, networking and hanging out with her friends and also hoarding makeup.

In her blog, one can check reviews, swatches, read about latest launches, new products in the market, event updates, Bhumika’s hauls, makeup, outfit posts and her collection of shoes, bags and her love for accessories. She blogs about everything related to skin care, makeup, product reviews of different brands, various tips and tricks, fashion , news, etc.

It’s a beautiful blog indeed that covers everything about beauty, makeup and fashion. She has crafted it in a way that attracts a lot of readers and beauty professionals to her blog.

The latest and upcoming, new trends related to beauty, fashion, makeup and product reviews that she shares through her blog everytime for her readers & beauty & fashion industry enthusiasts across, entitles her to be our Bloggerati.

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Bloggerati of the fortnight: Deeba Rajpal

Tuesday, August 5th, 2014

Bloggerati-DRCurrent Position and Organization:
Food Blogger @ Passionate About Baking, Freelance Food Writer, Recipe Developer & Tester, Food Styler
Educational Background:
Delhi University
Blog Name:
passionateaboutbaking.com

 

 

Deeba Rajpal is a freelance food writer and blogger, recipe developer and stylist from Gurgaon. Food has always been her passion and hence in order to express her passion for food styling, food photography, recipe development, product reviews and a lot more, she came up with her blog passionateaboutbaking.com.

‘Passionate About Baking’ is a recipe cum food blog where Deeba talks about baking, cooking, photography, food trends, cuisines and cultures; that too with a stroke of beauty. She has designed the blog in a way that talks about ‘Doing food from scratch’.

She is a non conformist, passionate & ‘rabid’ baker and blogger, for whom visual appeal holds as much significance as healthy and delectable food. Any idea that grabs her fancy becomes a springboard for creativity. She is obsessive about food styling, food photography & recipe development and enjoys cookbook/product reviews.

Adding to her list of creativity and passion is The Rabid Baker, under the name of which she writes an online baking blog for The Times of India.

Not just this, her interests also include travel, nature and lifestyle photography. She loves the vibrancy and character of everything Indian. That rules her soul!

The latest and upcoming and new trends related to food, photography and product reviews that she shares through her blog everytime for her readers & food industry enthusiasts across, entitles her to be our Bloggerati.

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Bloggerati of the fortnight: Karishma Rajani

Monday, July 21st, 2014

imageCurrent Position and Organization:
Blogger, Writer & Street style photographer
at Purple Peeptoes

Blog Name:
purple-peeptoes.com

 

 

Karishma Rajani is a blogger; writer and street style photographer based in Mumbai and the one who strongly believes that ‘Art inspires design which inspires pictures’. Looking at the world in frames is what makes her so great with her work. Trying to encapsulate moments in time that have left her infinitely inspired. And she does hope that her blog purple-peeptoes.com leaves one feeling just the same.

Karishma believes that the necessity to share personal style with the world is the mother of invention for outfit blogging. Interestingly, she herself began by shooting herself on a two megapixel phone camera.

Purple-peeptoes.com is a street style India Fashion blog that is not only beautifully crafted, but is considered to be an alternate route to mainstream fashion by a lot of beauty and fashion enthusiasts.

She does not consider herself to be a photographer, but the one who looks at the world in frames. She is an avid writer who tries to encapsulate moments in time that left her infinitely inspired. And hence, she hopes her blog also leaves the readers feeling just the same. Anyone who comes to her blog, stops by it everytime to read through the beautiful piece she has crafted the blog into!

The latest and upcoming trends related to style and fashion that she shares through her blog everytime for her readers & fashion enthusiasts across, entitles her to be our Bloggerati.

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Bloggerati of the fortnight: Rhea Gupte

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014

imageCurrent Position and Organization:
Fashion & Lifestyle Blogger at FUSS, Freelance Model & Occasional Writer
Educational Background:
National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore
Blog Name:
fuss.co.in

 

There is a certain boldness and style that can make anyone turn their heads and notice Rhea Gupte, the fashion blogger, model, stylist and writer. Powerful and elegant in the same breath, Rhea brings together distinct elements of fashion, style and latest trends with a class. It’s her passion in the world of fashion, beauty and style, which inspired her to come up with her blog fuss.co.in.

Rhea is a Mumbai girl, who loves to shop and dress up. Fashion is her obsession and she is someone who is considered to have a magic beauty and an unusual smile that very well compliments her fashion and personality.

Fuss (Fashion Unzipped | Street Style) is a personal style and fashion blog documenting Rhea’s style, inspirations and latest trends and news in the world of fashion. It is here where she creates an online visual diary of her everyday style and documents her taste in clothing, accessories and beauty.

For the love of traveling and exploring different cities, the Mumbai born and brought up blogger/model had made Bangalore her home for the past four years after which she settled in Mumbai for a while, only to take off to the visual paradise of Goa.

The way she creates the content for her blog is fantastic as whatever she blogs about has a beauty of its own. Fuss, very well depicts Rhea’s thoughts and passions a bit edgy and something that people would remember.

The blog that she has crafted so beautifully is an absolute treat to the eyes and is every fashion and beauty enthusiast’s dream. Mind-blowing pictures and amazing content is what blends to form ‘Fuss’.

The latest and upcoming trends related to fashion and style that she shares through her blog everytime for her readers & fashion enthusiasts across, entitles her to be our Bloggerati.

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