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Archive for August, 2008
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Start-ups, Technology
Just a couple of months I did a Q&A with Deepak Shenoy of Moneyoga and their online business model for their financial startup. Deepak was quite gung-ho about his startup and was looking to raise money. But, within a few weeks of publishing the interview I got a note from Deepak that they had to [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 24th, 2008 • Category: Events, Ideas, India, Technology, Web 2.0
LiveJournal, an open source blogging platform is expanding its footprint in India and recently launched a community for their users in India. LiveJournal has ambitious plans for localization by providing translation and multilingual interfaces to its bloggers and readers. While English is the dominant language for Indian bloggers there has been an increase in the [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, India, People, YouTube Videos
Sanjaya Malakar is back. Remember him from American Idol? The singer with the funky hairstyles (ponyhawk) and a laid-back attitude? Remember the Fanjayas? Was it just a year ago that Sanjaya was the talk of the nation? To celebrate Sanjaya’s fame on American Idol there was even a Sanjaya Malakar Day declared by the South [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, India, Interviews, People, YouTube Videos
Namrata Joshi is a film critic for Outlook, a national magazine published in India. She also writes articles on cinema for the magazine and recently won the best film critic award at the 52nd National Film Awards in India. Prior to Outlook Namrata wrote for India Today and Economic Times.
To say that she is passionate [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Life, Mobile, People, Start-ups
We have a nice mix of interviews that spans life, people and ideas. Murli Wanchoo is a retired Indian government official, who lives in Silicon Valley and he looks back at India in the early days. Then we have Anusuya Devi (88), who is known as the “Queen of Folk Music” of Andhra Pradesh. Age [...]