Sunil Shivaji Khandbahale (born 1 June 1978) is an innovator and entrepreneur from Nashik, India. 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. He is a technology and innovation columnist."बोली भाषांच्या दस्तावेजीकरणाची गरज - सुनील खांडबहाले" "दैनिक लोकसत्ता, २५ ऑक्टोबर, २०१३""भारतीयांसाठी लोकाभिमुख स्वतंत्र सोशल मीडिया हवा" "दैनिक दिव्य मराठी, १८ एप्रिल २०१८""सोशल मीडिया व्यसनमुक्तीची गरज" "दैनिक दिव्य मराठी, १८ एप्रिल २०१८"
Early life and education Khandbahale was born in Nashik."Kumbhathons". Kuwait Times, 15 August 2015, page 14 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.
Career Khandbahale developed a dictionary search engine program for Marathi. He continued compiling dictionaries, and in 2005, set up an online dictionary portal, khandbahale.com, for various Indian languages. He is Sloan Fellow and earned a master's degree in business management MBA degree at MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 2012, he launched 12 Language Dictionary on 12 December 2012 at 12 hours, 12 minutes and 12 seconds."12th language added in online dictionary", DNA India"Online dictionaries launched in 12 languages on 12-12-12". Deccan Herald, 12 December 2012. In early 2013 Khandbahale launched his twelve-languages dictionary on an SMS platform. His Languages Apps are also available on the Android platform.
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."Parents protest against school". Times of India, 8 March 2013. On 27 December 2013, he co-founded Kumbhathon"Kumbhathon - Technology Innovations for Kumbha Mela". Kumbhathon Official Website"Kumbhathon, Innovation Sandbox for Kumbha Mela". Kumbhathon Innovation Sandbox with MIT Professor Ramesh Raskar, an innovation platform to spot problems and probe solutions in Nashik."From Waze for crowds to Uber for street food – MIT innovations at Kumbh Mela ". The Guardian"KumbhaThon: MIT team visits Nashik to help for Kumbhmela". DNA. In 2014, in conjunction with Mumbai University, he started developing an English to Sanskrit thesaurus for use with mobile phones. He had also developed Marathi language spellchecker software.
Work During the global pandemic time of COVID-19, he developed a musical therapy technology tool Samaysangit.App as a solution for mental health based on time based Indian classical music raga theory.,"समयसंगीत : वेळेनुसार चालणारे संगीत" "समयसंगीत.अँप संकेतस्थळ""ऋतू-कालचक्रानुसार ऐकायला मिळणार शास्त्रीय संगीत" "लोकमत न्यूज नेटवर्क, फेब्रुवारी ६, २०२१""Pandit Bhimsen Joshi भारतरत्न प. भीमसेन जोशी यांच्या जन्मशताब्दीवर्षानिमित्त संगीत-कानसेन-समाज निर्मितीसाठी" "नाशिक वेब, फेब्रुवारी ५, २०२१" He was instrumental in Nashik Kumbh Mela 2015 through Kumbhathon."KumbhaThon: MIT team visits Nashik to help for Kumbhmela" "DNA""Kumbh Mela 2015 to Get Hi-tech, Thanks to MIT Researchers and Ratan Tata" "IB Times""कुंभथॉन : कुंभमेळ्यासाठीचे तंत्रज्ञान" "कुंभथॉन संकेतस्थळ" While he was on his spiritual journey at Alandi (Devachi), Pune, he launched first ever 24x7 (Akhand) Online Dnyaneshwari Radio with the blessings of Shri Kisan Maharaj Sakhare"'सद्गुरुवर्य श्री. किसन महाराज साखरे" "Sakhare Maharaj Website" and Vijay P. Bhatkar."ज्ञानेश्वरी आता इंटरनेट रेडिओद्वारे विश्वाला खुली" "दै. लोकसत्ता, September 29, 2019""खांडबहाले डॉट कॉमतर्फे ज्ञानेश्वरी रेडिओ इंटरनेटवर" "दै. महाराष्ट्र टाइम्स, 29 Sep 2019" As a student of Central Sanskrit University Delhi, he started Sanskritbharati Internet Community Radio as an all time listening platform for the Sanskrit language students."'संस्कृत भारती' हा जगातील पहिला संस्कृत इंटरनेट रेडिओ प्रसारित" "दै. दिव्य मराठी, नोव्हें ३०, २०२०" He wrote Godavari Aarti and build a water innovation technology platform titled Godavariaarti.org for global collaboration on water issues."गोदा-जन्मोत्सवाचे औचित्य साधून गोदावरीआरती.ऑर्ग (GodavariAarti.Org) या साहित्यक-सांस्कृतिक तंत्रज्ञान वेबसाईटचे लोकार्पण" "मराठी वेब दुनिया, 10 फेब्रुवारी 2022""'गोदावरी आरती' संकेतस्थळाचे लोकार्पण तंत्रज्ञान संशोधक खांडबहाले यांचा उपक्रम" "दै. देशदूत, 10 Feb, 2022""गोदावरी आरती.ऑर्ग तर्फे "स्वतःच बनवा स्वतःची गोदावरी आरती पुस्तिका"कार्यशाळेने "जागतिक मुद्रण दिन" साजरा" "नांदेड न्यूज, नृसिंह न्यूज नेटवर्क २/२५/२०२२"
Awards Best entrepreneur of the year "Yashokirti Award", from the Computer Society of India.CSI Yashokirti AwardKhandbahale receiving CSI award from D B Pathak IIT Mumbai Chairman Best Local Language Website Award from the Internet and Mobile Association of India.The Second Edition of India Digital AwardsIAMAI India Digital Award Winners International "Manthan Award" from the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society.mBillionth Award, South Asia 2012 "Youth Icon" Award from the Times Group. National ICT VASVIK Industrial Research Award.VASVIK Award Winners in Information & Communication Technology
References
External links Sunil Khandbahale at MIT TEDx Talk : TEDxXLRI TEDx Talk : TEDxIIMAhmedabad : TEDx Talk : TEDxVJTI :