Swapnil Bhartiya
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Swapnil Bhartiya (born 15 June 1977 at Lakhimpur Kheri' (Hindi: लखीमपुर खीरी, Urdu: لحیم پور خیری), a district of Uttar Pradesh in the Lucknow division., India) is a technology journalist and science-fiction writer. Currently he is working with EFYTImes as an Assistant Editor. Under his leadership EFYtimes has emerged as one of the most referred technology news portal from India.
Swapnil Bhartiya has written for CSIR, Bhabha Nuclear Research Center, Mumbai, IIT- Delhi, and NRDC. He is active member of many organisations engaged in popularising science in India, namely Indian Science Fiction Writer's Association, Varanasi.
Swapnil has also been a trainer in the workshops organised by ISFWA. Swapnil is also an active blogger who writes on issues from technology to literature. He is also active in promotion of Linux through his blogs.
Swapnil did his M.A. in American/English literature in year 2000, then completed a mass communication course from MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia university, Delhi.
Swapnil started his writing career in 1995, when he was in the 11th grade. He wrote an article for a magazine of CSIR India. Then he started contributing for the magazines regularly. It was in the year 1999, when he received a call from All India Radio and he started broadcasting his science fiction stories from the radio station.
He is also a science-fiction writer and has worked in some documentary films during his studies of mass communication. He is primarily known for keep a skeptical close eye on Microsoft for LINUX For You magazine -- Asia and India's first and only magazine (in English)for Open Source technologies. His noted stories include the Microsoft's allegation that Linux infringes on its patents: *The Conspiracy Theory.
He lives in Delhi.
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[edit] EFYTimes
EFYTimes.com is India's leading news portal that focuses on science and technology developments in India. It covers sectors like Electronics, Informantion technology, Telecom, Linux/ Open source, IT SMEs etc. In July 2007, the news portal started an interview section, Dialogue, which featured top shots like Linus Torvalds, Thomas Frey and Intel executive Thomas M Kilroy. The portals will soon launch a column section for analysis of the Indian tech Industry. Rahul Chopra is the editor of the news website.
[edit] Interviews
- Giriraj Nyati: The Future Of Optical Media Is Robust - May 2007
- Linus Torvalds: Microsoft Just Made Up The Number - June 2007
- Thomas M. Kilroy: Intel Is Its Own Competitor - June 2007
- Thomas Frey: People Are Giving Birth To Empire of One - June 2007
- Michael Tiemann: Many Eyes Make All Bugs Shallow! - December 2007
- Open Source On (And) Windows: Radhesh Balakrishnan! - December 2007
- Nir Gazit: WiMAX Makes Most Sense In Rural India - February 2008
- Matthias Ettrich: The KDE-Man! - March 2008
- Louis Suarez-Potts: OOXML Has Zero Effect On ODF - May 2008
[edit] Quotes
- Open source can be on Windows as well: Radhesh balakrishnan -- Microsoft (interview)
- Microsoft is trying to muddy the water: Linus Torvalds (interview)
- Microsoft clearly lost the Web war -- they failed to enhance the Web in a proprietary way: Matthias Ettrich (interview)
- ODF is much easier to work with and offers a lot more in potential than OOXML -- Louis Suarez-Potts (Interview)
