Swapnil Bhartiya
Swapnil Bhartia (born 15 June 1977) is a technology journalist and science-fiction writer. Currently he is working with EFYTImes as an Assistant Editor. Under his leadership EFYtimes has emerged as one of the most referred technology news portal from India.
Swapnil Bhartiya has written for CSIR, Bhabha Nuclear Research Center, Mumbai, IIT- Delhi, and NRDC. He is ACTIVE member of many organisations engaged in popularising science in India, namely Indian Science Fiction Writer's Association, Varanasi.
Swapnil has also been a trainer in the workshops organised by ISFWA. Swapnil is also an active blogger who writes on issues from technology to literature. He is also active in promotion of Linux through his blogs.
Swapnil did his M.A. in American/English literature in year 2000, then completed a mass communication course from MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia university, Delhi.
Swapnil started his writing career in 1995, when he was in the 11th grade. He wrote an article for a magazine of CSIR India. Then he started contributing for the magazines regularly. It was in the year 1999, when he received a call from All India Radio and he started broadcasting his science fiction stories from the radio station.
He is also a science-fiction writer and has worked in some documentary films during his studies of mass communication.
He lives in Delhi.
EFYTimes
EFYTimes.com is India's leading news portal that focuses on science and technology developments in India. It covers sectors like Electronics, Informantion technology, Telecom, Linux/ Open source, IT SMEs etc. In July 2007, the news portal started an interview section, Dialogue, which featured top shots like Linus Torvalds, Thomas Frey and Intel executive Thomas M Kilroy. The portals will soon launch a column section for analysis of the Indian tech Industry. Rahul Chopra is the editor of the news website.
InterViews
- Giriraj Nyati: The Future Of Optical Media Is Robust - May 2007
- Linus Torvalds: Microsoft Just Made Up The Number - June 2007
- Thomas M. Kilroy: Intel Is Its Own Competitor - June 2007
- Thomas Frey: People Are Giving Birth To Empire of One - June 2007
- Michael Tiemann: Many Eyes Make All Bugs Shallow! - December 2007