DesiPundit

Patrix is the founder of DesiPundit and has been a regular blogger in the Indian blogosphere since June 2003. His personal blog, Nerve Endings Firing Away and a visit to BlogNashville, a conference on blogging inspired him to start DesiPundit. In the offline world,he is a doctoral student at Texas A&M majoring in Urban Planning and loves offering his opinions on serious social and political issues as well as cracking inane jokes. You can reach him at patrixblogs [at] gmail [dot] com.

Ash has a Masters degree in Public Health with a major in Environmental Health. She has always loved writing and has been blogging since late 2004. She enjoys the connectivity of the blogosphere, and its plethora of quality writing. She's partial to posts about the quirks of life, family, friendship, romance, poetry, books, humor, the trials & joys of the desi diaspora, and anything and everything Bombaiyya. Her interests are reflected in her own writing, and slices of her life can be found at A Dash of Ash. You can reach her at ash [at] desipundit [dot] com.

Kaps works for a Global Technology firm and is based out of Singapore. His online journey started way back in B-school where he experimented with a homepage. He has been blogging actively since March 2005. Kaps is an avid music buff and tries to fiddle with the musical keyboard whenever he is not occupied with the computer keyboard. He also plays Tennis and Table Tennis during his free time. Kaps currently blogs at Sambhar Mafia and intends to start a Tamil blog sometime in the near future. You can reach him at kaps [at] desipundit [dot] com.

Saket Vaidya is a recruiter-headhunter in the technology domain, working for a Fortune 500 NASDAQ listed staffing solutions company. Saket has been blogging since June 2004, through which he has been able to discover a surprising passion for writing. His interests include individualist philosophy, heavy metal music, technology and the open source software movement. Among other things, he aggressively advocates the Wordpress platform, and loves to assist fellow bloggers in shifting to it, customizing it as per their liking and troubleshooting generic technology issues. As a blogger, Saket is better known as Vulturo, a handle which he has adopted since he was 14, after a animated super villain by the same name. You can reach him at vulturo [at] desipundit [dot] com.

Neha Viswanathan works in the areas of research, communication and strategy. She spends far too much time in a day reading blogs. (If she was paid a rupee for every blog she read in a day, she'd be a very rich woman.) Other than contributing to Desipundit, she blogs at Within / Without and Global Voices. Apart from having an opinion on everything, she dabbles in poetry. You can reach her at neha [at] desipundit [dot] com.

Dubukku aspired to become astro scientist at NASA after completing his doctorate in "Shells and Kinematically Decoupled Cores in Elliptical Galaxies" but instead is blogging at Dubukku on nuances of flirting. With few more clicks from kind hearted readers and Google living up with its adsense promises he will soon move to his own domain dubukkuworld.com. Dubukku is also twice runner up in Indibloggies polls despite his and his allies' bogus voting attempts. For uninitiated "Dubukku" in Tamil means a very nice, good, kind hearted, clever soul. You can reach him at dubukku [at] desipundit [dot] com.

Tulsi Gopal lives in from New Zealand and started writing in Maraththadi on her own blog since September 2004. You can contact her at tulsi [at] desipundit [dot] com

Sanket Patil, 24 lives in Bangalore. He is a Computer Science Researcher and PhD scholar at the International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore aka triple- I - T - B (IIIT-B). His interests include Algorithms, literature, arts, physics, society, languages, blogs. He blogs at Argumentation Crisis. You can contact him at sanket [at] desipundit [dot] com

In Kolkata, there lives Ms. Ray,
Whose idea of fun is word play
Her passion? To rhyme -
(She does it all the time!)

Passionate about limericks, Aparna launched Newsmericks in 2005. She is also a rookie the OEDILF --- an international writing project, which aims at writing atleast one limerick for each and every word in the English language.

Aparna's other blog is a voice in the wind. She can also be found at Desicritics and has recently joined Global Voices as the Bangla contributor. Her own Bangla blog is khola janala.You can contact her at aparna [at] desipundit [dot] com

Confused lives in Florida and is a doctoral student in Health Services Research. He has been in college for far too many years and now wishes to work in the real world and earn a living, a real one that is. He discovered blogging through online debating forums and now blogs with the passion of a neo-convert. He is interested in Indian politics, current affairs and of course in news which can be best characterised as just plain weird. He blogs here and here. You can reach him at confused [at] desipundit [dot] com

Abi has a personal blog at nanopolitan. He has been a faculty member since 1993 in the Department of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore. You can reach him at abi [at] desipundit [dot] com

Madhu is currently pursuing her graduate studies at a US university. In various avatars, she has been a journalist, a researcher, a PR person and once again is a student now (hopefully not for too long). She is interested in old and new media technologies, marketing through social networks and the politics of development. Currently, she is researching on Indian and US based blogs for a university project. She enjoys reading movie gossip and is passionate about old Bollywood films and music. She has recently started her own blog and continues to spruce it up. She can be reached at Madhu [at] desipundit [dot] com.

Sidin works in retail and writes out of Mumbai. He has an ebullient personality that reportedly exudes "Animal Mallu Magnestism". He has a penchant for History and Lebanese Cuisine and, in addition to several other noted achievements, once ate 18 reasonably sized Chettinad Idlis with surprisingly little amounts of coconut chutney. He blogs sporadically at Domain Maximus and occasionally writes in newspapers and magazines. He has a degree in Metallurgical Engineering (Ah Corrosion of austenitic stainless steels! Thou art so fair!) and an MBA. His wife says hi. Mail him at sidin [at] desipundit [dot] com.

Vikram hails from Pune and works with TCS as a process consultant. He does cartoons as a hobby and you can view his work on .pOINT bLANK. The blog is updated every weekend with the lighter side of the top news. If laughter is the best medicine then politics is the best pharmacy. Mail him at Vikram [at] desipundit [dot] com.

Shripriya is an aspiring filmmaker (and therefore also a struggling writer) in Manhattan. Before that, she spent many years in the technology and the internet space (most recently at eBay). She blogs at Almost As Good As Chocolate and her movie thoughts are at Tatvam Media. Her geographic wanderings look like this -- Madras->Boston -> San Francisco (and the Bay Area)-> New York. It is up for debate whether Madras or New York is the center of the universe, but she loves both. Mail her at Shripriya [at] desipundit [dot] com.

Yogesh lives in Pune. He is a greedy reader and movie buff. He immensely loves his mother tongue Marathi/मराठी, and is fond of the various dialects of the language. Apart from blogging at his Marathi blog "Aahe hey asa aahe/आहे हे असं आहे", he loves trekking in the Sahyadris.You can reach him at yogesh[at]desipundit[dot]com.

Venkat, a software engineer by chance and a filmmaker(read aspiring filmmaker) by choice enjoys art, literature, and life. Routine finds him providing software services for a UK based telecommunications company. He keeps busy by making travelogues for Telugu television channels, documentaries, short films etc and is currently working on a script for a feature film. He maintains a Telugu blog, 24fps. You can reach him at venkat [at] desipundit [dot] com.

Lekhni completed her Masters in Business Administration from Columbia and went on to work in (where else) Wall Street. Somewhere along the line, she realized she desperately wanted to write. She now blogs at The Imagined Universe and spends all her free time reading other blogs.

IdeaSmith calls herself a chronic thinker and considers herself to be a born story-teller. She moonlights as a troubled poet, a warrior princess, and closet sorceress. No wonder she fears that she would have been burned at a stake few centuries ago. But in this century, she blogs at The Idea-Smithy.

JK is a California based engineer with an interest in history and archaeology and is the host of the Indian History Carnival. Besides this, he is also interested in foreign policy,Indic religions and spirituality.He has been blogging since March 2003 at varnam.

Aditya Ramgopal, is a Graduate Student in Computer Science at Texas A&M University and an alumnus of IIT-Roorkee. He has been blogging since 2004 but has shifted his blog from Blogger to Wordpress.com, to currently running two self-hosted blogs. At the moment he writes on his self-titled blog on current affairs, Internet and online-media and concentrates his creative and personal energies on his other blog - the link which will remain known only to a few!

Sampada has been a blogger since early 2002, having moved from her early Blogspot days to posting on Livejournal. She is a true Mumbaikar at heart, now settled in Houston, Texas. She loves splurging on books, and finds intellectual company highly stimulating. She dabbles in poetry writing, loves analyzing movies and going to the theater when she can afford it. She hopes to continue her life in the academia, hopes to continue teaching, and is currently pursuing her PhD in English at University of Houston.

Jennifer Kumar, also known as Jayanthi, has been creating and maintaining a website about India, Hinduism, and spirituality since 1997. Jennifer has had the extraordinary experience of living two years in Chennai, India as a college student. Jennifer was the first American to earn a Master’s degree in Social Work from Madras Christian College. Currently, Jennifer is a homemaker, and enjoys spending time with friends, family, coordinating and planning events, creating things with her hands (cooking, soap making, beadwork, sewing, etc.).Her blog is found at Alaivani.

Karthik Sriram a.k.a LKS is a PSBB - SVCE alumnus from Chennai who did his graduate studies in Biomedical Engg at University of South Florida. Currently working as a Quality Systems Engineer, LKS is an Internet Addict, self-proclaimed PhD on Tamizh Cinema and a small time blogger. LKS blogs at Extra-Ordinarily Ordinary.

An MBA and an Electrical Engineer working at an IT MNC,Nikhil is usually found devouring fish fry and rice at Kerala restaurants in Bangalore. He was admitted twice for Withdrawal Syndrome after his friends locked him in a room without an internet connection.He overloads himself with irrelevant information about anything and everything and apparently this helps him win quizzes.After being warned by his boss for blogging during work hours,he juggles between the 35th tab window in Mozilla Firefox and excel sheets when at work.