In 2020, I had listed my 1st documentary video on IMDb and now in 2021, I claimed my own IMDb profile with IMDb pro; so people could view my photo on IMDb.
There was an idea to launch our own website or app for the Odia Podcasts since 2018 when we launched Shubhapallaba Magazine. And here it is the Shubhapallaba Radio has launched as the ShubhaVani app.
After assembling a personal computer, I started learning Flutter and the basics of Android Development. And with the help of my friend Suman I've designed this ShubahVani app.
ShubahVani is a podcast website available on radio.shubhapallaba.in and after launching the website, he started working on the Android app, and successfully we have launched it for the readers of Shubhapallaba Magazine.
Though this app is not available on Google Playstore due to some financial issues, some users have installed this on their mobile phones and using it.
At the initial stage, we're uploading those old recorded podcasts with some basic edits (if needed) to the website and automatically it fetched to the App. Apart from that, we have some new podcasts to upload.
While uploading Odia podcasts to the ShubhaVani app, we are also sharing those different podcasting platforms like Anchor FM, Spotify, Amazon Music, Gaana, Audible, Jio Saavan, etc to get a rich audience.
For my works, I have assembled a personal computer for under 50 thousand rupees. Since 2012 I was dependent on my Dell Insprano 15 Laptop and it's the time for the upgradation.
Since 2015 I was trying to learn Android Studio, but due to lack of infrastructure, I was unable to do that. In 2017, I got a Chromebook from the Google team through Wikimedia India and CIS-A2K.
Previously in 2020, I had modified my old Dell Laptop by replacing the HDD with an SSD and adding an extended 4 GB new RAM for better performance.
But still, I couldn't make that possible, so this time I have decided to buy a new one. Within my budget, it was not easy to get a laptop, so I go for a desktop. I took help from some of my friends.
After consulting with some friends, watching more than 200 YouTube videos, and contacting some dealers all over India, I had decided to buy the RYZEN 5 3600 processor. Online e-commerce stores were showing a huge amount and that amount was growing day by day.
So, I had decided to buy from the shopkeeper; but the price was still high. Finally, I got a good deal at Bhadrak only. Apart from the processor, we took a 16GB RAM, 2 GB graphics card, and the motherboard from Gigabyte.
Actually, the assemble of the CPU was costing less than 50K, but then I had decided to upgrade the motherboard with a gaming processor, so the cost increased a little bit. Apart from the CPU, I got a new monitor of 21 inches which is perfect for my work.
In 2021, I became an authorized book publisher and published the 1st paperback with an ISBN number. The 1st book we have published under Shubhapallaba Publication is Shankhanada.
It was started in 2016 when I joined the editorial team of our college Magazine Quasar at Bhawanipatna. Then the plan was to publish my own magazine and it happened in 2018 with the help of Tapas bhai and lots of friends.
In 2020, I had published the 1st e-book under Shubhapallaba Publication during Raja Parba. This book was published without an ISBN number and is available on Shubhapallaba Store as well as Google Books and Google Playstore.
Before this, I had tried to publish a book for Kindle. That book was not under any publication house, it's a self-published book. During Durga puja 2019, I had published this photobook in Odia and it was the 1st Odia book on Amazon Kindle. But due to their language issues, they had removed that book from Kindle in 2021.
After publishing ebooks, we tried to publish paperbacks in 2021 and for that, we got the ISBN approval for the publication house. Shankhanda, a story collection by Pramod Kumar Panda is the 1st paperback of Shubhapallaba Publication.
We had planned for an online zoom call to inaugurate Shankhanada. Guests like writer Dr. Sulagna Mohanty, Binay Mohapatra, Dr. Trupti Ranjan Das, news presenter Itishree Nayak, journalist Saumya Parida, Mayuresh Das, and more than 50 Odia readers had joined this meeting from different places.
The news about Shankhanda's inauguration was published in different newspapers like Prameya, Dharitri, Swadhikara, Odisha Diary, Enews Insights, etc.
For the year, 2020, I got Yuva Prerana Sammana at the 6th International Conclave on Monther Language organized by the Intellects forum at Delhi.
The Intellects is a forum by Odia people at Delhi who started this event in 2015. They select some personalities who work for the mother-tongue Odia.
I've started editing on Wikipedia in 2014 and when I started editing, I never thought of writing more than 10 articles, but now the count is increasing every day. From the past 1000 days, I was writing at least one article every day and finally, the mission for #1000wikidays completed now.
On 8th March 2017, when I started writing 100 women articles in 100 days, that was quite difficult because of traveling and the internet shutdown at my place for the communal violence. But when it was completed, that day I was too excited and with that excitement, I hadn't continued that, but form 13th July 2017 again I started writing with an aim to complete the #1WikiYear challenge and yes completed that by writing articles related to Odia Film Industry. But the sad part is from those 365 articles 24 articles have been deleted and one article recovered.
But, when I completed the 1st Wikiyear, I aimed for #500Wikidays which were completed by Pranay Raj Bangari and Nitesh Gill before and that too completed and today another 500 days completed. These 1000 days and the previous 100 days went just like a few days, but those were not so easy.
In those 1000 days, I got calls from friends as well as from fellow Wikimedians to quit; some suggested there are lots of time, but you have to prove yourself with a well-paid salary; some suggested not to waste time with such things when a work of at least 4 hours deleted within a few seconds. But these 1000 days taught me lots of things; Now I have good knowledge about our own film industry, I know lots of people from this industry, I learned lots of things about the political history of my state, and the hidden thing is some political things which you may face everywhere in life.
I was afraid of failure; if someday I couldn't write; if I met some accident for which I couldn't write, but thanks to that hidden support I see this day without any failure. On the wedding day of my sister, I was also writing article on my mobile next to the marriage mandap. In that communal violence, I went to the nearby district just to get the internet to write the article for that day. Yes, those days helped to complete this thing.
I wasn't sure to continue, but there are lots of political articles left, which I should read to know about the political history of Odisha and this may help me to achieve easily. I don't know up to when I could continue this, but I would aim for #2000wikidays. At this present scenario of the world, anything may happen at any time, but I wish I could write to the end of that. And if I survive, then the future may be different.
In 2014, I add one article in English Wiki, then translated them to Odia Wiki. In those days, I didn't have much idea how to write properly in Odia and I had a bad typing speed. So Subhashish bhai had advised me to write one book on Wikisource.
That book helped me to know more about my language and now I could type with my hands only. Again he added me to this group and I started the #100wikidays from 8 March 2017 on Wikipedia.
On 3rd December 2017, we celebrated the 3rd anniversary of Wikisource and I saw I wasn't active since May. So decided to write at least one page every day and started writing from 5th December 2017. At that time I used to type one old Odia book which was in the old script which is not supported by OCR.
Then finished that book and continued it for proofreading one book with the new script which was written by OCR. Till now I'm doing this for Odia Wikipedia and Wikisource every day.
Today, on 4th December 2018, I had completed the #1wikiyear on Wikisource too. This Wiki year on Wikisource is not that much attractive, but it was like a commitment to edit at least one page every day. Now, this thing became the part of my life. Every day before my sleep I check and recalled whether I have written the article on both the projects.
- Sangram (User: Ssgapu22)
