Sunil Shivaji Khandbahale (born June 1, 1978) is a MITSloan Fellow, Innovator and Entrepreneur from Nashik, India.[1] He is the 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] He is a regular technology and innovation columnist for national and international media.[5][6][7]
Early life and education
Khandbahale was born in Nashik.[8] 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.
Khandbahale 12 languages dictionary is being launched on 2012-12-12 at 12:12:12
In 2012, he launched 12 Language Dictionary on 12 December 2012 at 12 hours, 12 minutes and 12 seconds.[12][13] In early 2013 Khandbahale launched his twelve-languages dictionary on an SMS platform.[14] His Languages Apps are also available on the Android platform.[15][16]
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.[17][18] On 27 December 2013, he co-founded Kumbhathon with MIT Professor Ramesh Raskar, an innovation platform to spot problems and probe solutions in Nashik.[19][20][21][22] In 2014, in conjunction with Mumbai University, he started developing an English to Sanskrit thesaurus for use with mobile phones.[23] He had also developed Marathi language spellchecker software.[24][25]
Dnyaneshwari Radio being launched by Vijay Bhatkar, Sunil Khandbahale, Sakhare Maharaj
While he was on his spiritual journey at Alandi (Devachi), Pune, he launched first ever 24x7 (Akhand) Online Dnyaneshwari Radio with the blessings of Kisan Maharaj Sakhare and Vijay P. Bhatkar.[33][34] As a student of Central Sanskrit UniversityDelhi, he started Sanskritbharati Internet Community Radio as a all time listening platform for the Sanskrit language students.[35] He wrote Godavari Aarti and build a water innovation technology platform titled Godavariaarti.org for global collaboration on water issues.[36][37][38]
