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Online knowledge sharing firm Quora will now available in Hindi, a move that will allow about 500 million Hindi speakers to engage on the platform in Hindi. Founded in 2009 by Adam D'Angelo, former CTO of social networking giant Facebook. About half of Quora's user base is from outside the US, including from India. The question-and-answer platform already supports languages like Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese. The platform gets over 200 million unique monthly visitors. "Quora's mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge. The platform has been popular in India for years now and with the addition of Hindi language, we expect the participation from India to grow further," Quora India Country Manager Gautam Shewakramani said to Pixr8 team. Shewakramani said the c...

The community of Hindi readers may appear thin or even non-existent to the larger English- reading crowd but it appears they are simply doing what they do best- quietly reading good literature in some corner. With Hindi confined to the dark ends of most bookshops and shelves groaning under the weight of English bestsellers, English classics, English comics and English magazines, it would seem to be the wide, wide world of English reading out there. But that is only part of the picture. On Hindi Diwas today, there is enough evidence to suggest that Hindi literature continues to be contemporary and relevant, notwithstanding the naysayers. Take Preeti Mishra, who is doing her PhD in linguistics from IIT Delhi. Her habit of casually reading Hindi stories while in school turned into...

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Hindi Diwas: All About The Love For Books