Hindi blogosphere

The Hindi blogosphere is the online community of Hindi-language weblogs that are a part of the larger Indian blogosphere.
History.
Alok Kumar is known as the first Hindi blogger. His blog नौ दौ ग्यारह (9-2-11) was the first known Hindi blog and abdul qader khan Second most popular Hindi Blogger his blog name is achhisoch. He coined the term "Chittha" (Hindi:चिट्ठा) for "blog" which was quickly adopted by other bloggers and later became the standard Hindi term for it. Because of the difficulties involved in typing Hindi script, very few people used it online, but later on, due to the availability of Hindi typing tools, the number of Hindi bloggers began growing.
In 2007, the number of Hindi blogs increased rapidly. This was due to the advent of Indic Unicode support in various blogging services, and the advent of new Hindi typing tools like Google Indic Transliteration tool in Blogger and the promotion of Hindi blogging in the mainstream media.
Women in Hindi Blogging.
Some of the most popular Hindi bloggers are women. In April 2013, there were more than 50,000 Hindi blogs, one fourth of which were written by female bloggers.
Types of blogs.
During the beginning days, most Hindi blogs were personal, and there were few topic focused blogs. During 2007, the number of Hindi blogs increased rapidly and blogs focused on various topics like cinema, technology, science, hobbies, photoblog began.
Blog literary award.
The Parikalpna Award is a literary award for blogs in India. It is presented by the magazine "Parikalpnaa Samay" and the company Parikalpnaa.