Archive for January, 2007

By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 31st, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Bollywood, Business, Ideas, India, Podcast, San Francisco

You can listen to a podcast interview with Pete Deemer is the Chief Product Officer of Yahoo! India R&D. Pete has been in India for a year now and works out of Yahoo! Indias Bangalore office.
Last week we met with him in his Bangalore office. Actually we met on the eve of Republic Day […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 31st, 2007 • Category: Ideas, New York, Technology, Video

Bill Gates appeared on Jon Stewarts The Daily Show (video link) yesterday. This was of course related to the world-wide launch of Microsofts latest product: Vista.
If you try to watch these clips from India then be patient. It takes forever for these clips to come through lord knows how many network hops before it […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 31st, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, People

The marketing campaign for Vidhu Vinod Chopras latest film Ekalavya: The Royal Guard, is in full swing. Mr. Amitabch Bachchan is back on the small screen talking about the film, and how the film was shot and Mr. Chopras style of making a film. Just last week he was talking about the engagement of Abhi-Ash. […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 31st, 2007 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, Business, Merger & Acquisition

Tata Steel has won the bid to acquire Anglo-Dutch Corus Steel Plc, the worlds fifth largest steel company. Tata paid almost $12 billion to win this deal. This was a close race. Tata agreed to pay Corus investors 608 pence per share in cash, topping a final bid of 603 pence from Brazilian […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 30th, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, People

Chances are that if you dont watch Extra or Entertainment Tonight or read The National Enquirer, or are considering rhinoplasty¦you might have not heard of Raj Kanodia. Or, if you belong to the growing population of machine adjusted people then you might recognize Dr. Kanodias name.
Otherwise like thousands of people you might have discovered Dr. […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 30th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

New York City means excitement, fun and action for many people who visit the city. But, if you happen to be a denizen of New York you see the downside of living in this vast sprawling city where people have no time to stop and smell the roses, but they sure can smell the cigarette […]