Is it Sendhil or Senthil Ramamurthy? I have seen his name spelt both ways. I guess he spells it Sendhil Ramamurthy. If you have not heard of him…well, it is time you did. He is part of a TV serial called “Heroes.” And Sendhil made it to the Top 100 most sexiest people in People magazine’s annual […]
Archive for April, 2007
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 30th, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bangalore, Diaspora, Living In America, People, Video
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 30th, 2007 • Category: Americas, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, Ideas, Living In America
Mango diplomacy. Indian mangoes are finally hitting the US shores after a gap of 18 years. And I understand that the American icon Harley Davidson will have hit the Indian roads …I believe that was the trade-off.
So, tomorrow, May 1st 2007 there will be official mango tasting at 2.45 pm at U.S. Chamber of Commerce […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 30th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Ideas, India, Planes and Automobiles, Video
Is the Andhra Pradesh State Transport Corporation going green? It seems like it. The state owned transportation company is switching to biodiesel fuel in order to reduce pollution. They are taking it slow by having one bus depot operate biodiesel fuel in about 23 districts. A while ago Andhra Pradesh experimented with biodiesel buses in […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 30th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Ideas, India, Only in India
The National Right to Information (RTI) has a new national helpline starting May 1st, 2007. The new number, which is a Bangalore number is 080-666-00-999. RTI is one of the most significant legal developments introduced in independent India in terms of the rights of people etc. RTI allows Indian citizens to question the government, inspect and […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 29th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, India, Retail Industry, Travel, Video
Changing India is something I like to chronicle in words, audio and video clips. It is amazing to see these changes in metro India in terms of people, places, business…the whole nine yards.
Earlier this year I spent time in India and went around shooting a series of video clips in various parts of India like […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 28th, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, India, People, Podcast
It is Bollywood week next and we have a series of podcast interviews on Bollywood or Hindi cinema. Here is the line-up.
Jessica Hines, or Jess, as she prefers to be called recently released her new book on Amitabh Bachchan. I recently interviewed her about the book, Mr. Bachchan and other Bollywood-related stuff. The interview will […]
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
