Amit Agarwal – India’s Most Popular Blogger on CNN IBN

labnol.org – Amit Agarwal is India's first and only professional blogger. Watch his interview on CNN IBN where he talks about blogging as a career, making money online through Google adsense and how to become a successful blogger. In January 2009, Amit Agarwal founded the India Blog School blogschool.in

"To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph."
Mark Twain

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