Sunil Shivaji Khandbahale (born June 1, 1978) is a

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and Entrepreneur from

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. He is the founder and

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of KHANDBAHALE.COM, a free multilingual digital

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and translation platform for 23 languages, with a vocabulary of 10 million words and phrases. He is a regular technology and innovation columnist for national and international media.

Early life and education

Khandbahale was born in Nashik. 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

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. He continued compiling dictionaries, and in 2005, set up an online dictionary portal, khandbahale.com, for various Indian languages. He is

and earned a masters in business management MBA degree at

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Khandbahale 12 languages dictionary is being launched on 2012-12-12

In 2012, he launched 12 Language Dictionary on 12 December 2012 at 12 hours, 12 minutes and 12 seconds. In early 2013 Khandbahale launched his twelve-languages dictionary on an

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platform. His Languages Apps are also available on the Android platform. 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. On 27 December 2013, he co-founded Kumbhathon with MIT Professor

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, an innovation platform to spot problems and probe solutions in

. In 2014, in conjunction with Mumbai University, he started developing an English to Sanskrit thesaurus for use with mobile phones. He had also developed Marathi language spellchecker software.

Work

During the global pandemic time of covid-19, he developed a musical therapy technology tool Samaysangit.App as a solution for

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based on time based

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theory. , He was instrumental in

Kumbhmela 2015 through Kumbhathon. Dnyaneshwari radio is being launched the auspicious hands of Dr

While he was on his spiritual journey at Alandi (Devachi),

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, he launched first ever 24x7 (Akhand) Online Dnyaneshwari Radio with the blessings of

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and

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. As a student of

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, he started Sanskritbharati Internet Community Radio as a all time listening platform for the Sanskrit language students. He wrote Godavari Aarti and build a water innovation technology platform titled Godavariaarti.org for global collaboration on water issues.

Awards

* Best entrepreneur of the year "Yashokirti Award", from the Computer Society of India. * Best Local Language Website Award from the

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. * International "Manthan Award" from the United Nation’s

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. * "Youth Icon" Award from the

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. * National ICT

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.VASVIK Award Winners in Information & Communication Technology
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References

External links

Sunil Khandbahale at MIT
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