Archive for October, 2008

By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 27th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison

Wishing all of you a very warm and Happy Deepavali.


By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Ideas, India, San Francisco, Technology

“I work in a bus company,” said the young software engineer when I asked him where he worked.
“What is a bus company?” I asked in a puzzled tone. I had never heard that term before.
Well, it turns out that in Bangalore if you work for any of the big IT companies like Infosys, Wipro, TCS,  […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 20th, 2008 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, Business, Ideas, India, Video

Mr. Ratan Naval Tata, 71, Chairperson of Tata Sons, the holding company of Tata Group a multi-billion dollar conglomerate is back in the news again. This time he is back in the news for a different reason. This time he is in news for giving $50 million to his alma mater Cornell University  in New […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: User Generated Content

For the past few weeks I have been lying low and have not really been active on my blog, video blog or my online radio site. This was due to a combination of reasons: laptop went kaput and I realized I need some time off to recharge and renew. Perhaps, I was suffering from a dose of information […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 14th, 2008 • Category: Americas, Global Voices, Ideas, India, YouTube Videos

While most of us were obsessively tracking the twists and turns of the financial global downturn there was an important milestone that USA and India crossed that went almost unnoticed. Earlier this month President Bush signed a bill that allows for sharing civilian nuclear technology with India that will help generate nuclear energy. Energy has […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 6th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, San Francisco

Trying make sense of what is happening around the world can be a bit challenging and stressful and you really don’t know where to turn for answers. On top of that trying to make sense of the current economic situation and what the consequences are for us is even more stressful. Where previously there was […]