Sunil Shivaji Khandbahale
| Sunil Shivaji Khandbahale | |
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| Born | June 1, 1978 Nashik, Maharashtra |
| 🏡 Residence | Mahiravani, Nashik district, Maharashtra |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Sloan School of Management |
| 💼 Occupation | Founder & CEO, KHANDBAHALE.COM Founder & CEO, KHANDBAHALE.ORG Founder & Secretory, Global Prosperity Foundation Co-Founder & President, Kumbhathon |
| 🌐 Website | sunil |
Sunil Shivaji Khandbahale (born June 1, 1978) is a MIT Sloan Fellow, Innovator and Entrepreneur from Nashik, India.[1] He is best known as a 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]
Early life and education
Khandbahale was born in Nashik.[5] 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.
Career
Khandbahale developed a dictionary search engine program for Marathi.[6] He continued compiling dictionaries, and in 2005, set up an online dictionary portal, khandbahale.com, for various Indian languages.[7][2] He is Sloan Fellow and earned a masters in business management MBA degree at MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[8]
In 2012, he launched 12 Language Dictionary on 12 December 2012 at 12 hours, 12 minutes and 12 seconds.[9][10] In early 2013 Khandbahale launched his twelve-languages dictionary on an SMS platform.[11] His Languages Apps are also available on the Android platform.[12][13]
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.[14][15] On 27 December 2013, he co-founded Kumbhathon with MIT Professor Ramesh Raskar, an innovation platform to spot problems and probe solutions in Nashik.[16][17][18][19] In 2014, in conjunction with Mumbai University, he started developing an English to Sanskrit thesaurus for use with mobile phones.[20]
Awards
- Best entrepreneur of the year "Yashokirti Award", from the Computer Society of India.[21][22]
- Best Local Language Website Award from the Internet and Mobile Association of India.[23][24]
- International "Manthan Award" from the United Nation’s World Summit on the Information Society.[25]
- "Youth Icon" Award from the Times Group.[14]
- National ICT VASVIK Industrial Research Award[26]
References
- ↑ "Find an English match online in Marathi, Hindi and now Gujarati". Indian Express, Pranav Kulkarni : Pune, Jun 23 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rajmohan Sooraj (November 3, 2013). "Words without borders". The Hindu. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ↑ "Young Achievers". Indian Express. 11 November 2013. Archived from the original on 15 November 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ↑ "Go, make your own road". The Telegraph, 11.02.2015
- ↑ "Kumbhathons"[permanent dead link]. Kuwait Times, 15 August, 2015, page 14
- ↑ "आता बोलता शब्दकोश". Maharashtra Times. 11 January 2003. Retrieved 5 August 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "First English-Marathi online dictionary launched". The Economic Times. June 10, 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
- ↑ "MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LEGATUM CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP". MIT Legatum ENTREPRENEURS. Legatum Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ↑ "12th language added in online dictionary", DNA India
- ↑ "Online dictionaries launched in 12 languages on 12-12-12". Deccan Herald, December 12, 2012
- ↑ "Translate Marathi words into English using mobile phone". Hindustan Times. 5 August 2013. Archived from the original on 6 September 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
- ↑ "Android Apps : KHANDBAHALE.COM". Google Play Store. Google. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ↑ "Android-based language Apps". KHANDBAHALE.COM. KHANDBAHALE.COM. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Youth Icon". Maharashtra Times. March 16, 2013. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
- ↑ "Parents protest against school". Times of India, March 8, 2013
- ↑ "From Waze for crowds to Uber for street food – MIT innovations at Kumbh Mela ". The Guardian
- ↑ "KumbhaThon: MIT team visits Nashik to help for Kumbhmela". DNA.
- ↑ "India's Kumbhamela is incubator for smart city ideas" THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
- ↑ "Kumbhathon to focus on tech - Sunil Khandbahale Times of India
- ↑ "Soon, learn Sanskrit via your cellphone" Archived 2014-10-16 at Archive.today. Hindustan Times.
- ↑ CSI Yashokirti Award[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Khandbahale receiving CSI award from D B Pathak IIT Mumbai Chairman
- ↑ The Second Edition of India Digital Awards[permanent dead link]
- ↑ IAMAI India Digital Award Winners[permanent dead link]
- ↑ mBillionth Award, South Asia 2012
- ↑ VASVIK Award Winners in Information & Communication Technology[permanent dead link]
External links
- Sunil Khandbahale at MIT
- TEDx Talk : TEDxXLRI Breaking the language barrier on YouTube
- TEDx Talk : TEDxIIMAhmedabad : Multilingual Translation Digital platform on YouTube
- TEDx Talk : TEDxVJTI : Language a Life Unscambler on YouTube
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