संगीता कुमारी

Independent Hindi Journalist, Editor & Translator

 

Independent Journalist, Translator, Editor and Localization Professional – Decades of experience – Worked as a reporter/copy-editor/assistant editor with main stream Hindi media; Translated and edited millions of words; edited approximately 50 books and transcribed hundreds of audio files – Life Member of prestigious Linguistic Society of India.

Interviewed more than 100 famous personalities of India including Prime Minister, Chief Justice of India, Nobel Laureate, Booker Prize winner, Politicians, Film Actors, Fashion Designer, Singer, Classical Dancers, Artists, Economists, and Religious Gurus. Wrote 100 short biography of famous literary personalities for Literate World, Inc

Distinctions

Interviewed more than 100 famous personalities of India including Prime Minister, Chief Justice of India, Nobel Laureate, Booker Prize winner,  Politicians, Film Actors, Fashion Designer, Singer, Classical Dancers, Artists, Economists, and Religious Gurus. Wrote 100 short biography of famous literary personalities for Literate World, Inc

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is the premier R&D organization of the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT). I feel honour that I become instrumental in translating and validating more than one million of words for Govt of India via C-DAC. The govt of India created all the software for public release. Based on the content I translated, Millions of free software CDs (Having Dictionary, Email Client, Browser, Office Suit, Chat client and much more) are still being distributed among the common people of India.

Translation/Localization

Translator / Evaluator of software, websites, and marketing material released by C-DAC, Govt of India
Working with more than 20 localization and translation agencies
Worked for Sarai for the localization of Fedora and KDE

Editing, Proofreading & Transcription

Editing and Transcription — Osho International Foundation — Hindi books of Osho Rajnish (Ongoing since 2007)
Copy Editor— Literate World, Inc., A California based Multilingual Portal (2002-2003)
Copy Editor— Hindi Literary Monthly Hans — Book of letters of famous fiction writer Mr. Rajendra Yadav (2001)
Assistant Editor— Monthly magazine Mandal Vichar (2004 -2005)

Print/Electronic/Internet Media

Copy Editor— Literate World, Inc., A California based Multilingual Portal ( 2002-2003)
Reporter— Largest Hindi Daily Dainik Bhaskar (2000-2001)
Assistant Editor— Monthly magazine Mandal Vichar (2004 -2005)
Media Coordinator— Delhi Book Fair (2001)
Worked for a election analysis program of Aaj Tak, a Hindi News channel (1999) Intern— TV Today Network’s Aaj Tak, A Hindi News channel (1999)
Freelance Reporter— National Hindi daily Dainik Hindustan (1998-99)

Education

P.G. Diploma in Hindi Journalism, (IIMC, New Delhi)
BA (Hons), TMB University, Bihar, India

Prizes/Scholarship/Fellowship

Sarai FLOSS fellowship (2009)
Second prize winner in a National Level essay competition conducted by United Nation Development Fund for Women (1998)
National Scholarship in Matriculation

Publications, Seminars and Events

Mozilla Summit, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2013
Mozilla Hindi Community Meetup, Pune, India, 2014
MozAsia2011, Mozilla Asia Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2011
FUEL Maithili Meet, Patna, 2009
Indlinux Meet, Pune, 2009
Hindi Sahitya Ke Sau Safe – A book of profiles of hundred Hindi writers, to be publish soon
Khushnasib Kisan Ki Gaya Marti Hai – An essay on the ‘narrative of violence that a women face in their day to day life’ published in the special publication of UNFPA, 1999
Karibiyon Ki Nazar Mein Ye Sitare – a unique book based on the memoirs of famous writers’ kin, To be published soon
Translation Workshop – Hindi Academy, Delhi, 1999