When I discovered Padma Viswanathan’s debut novel The Toss of a Lemon I was excited at the chance of reading a novel set in Tamil Nadu in South India. There are very books in English that weave the history of Tamil Naduy and The Madras Presidency (under the British Raj) in their narrative. The one book that comes to mind is […]
Archive for September, 2009
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 20th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Interviews, People
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 7th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, Diaspora, People, Video, YouTube Videos
(An edited version of this article was published in India Abroad, July 2009)
Badmash, Ishaara, Dil Se, KYA, Zamana, Dhamaka, Tamasha. No, these are not names of new Bollywood movies. These are the names of Hindi Film Dance (HFD) or Bollywood dance groups from various US universities, and this list does not […]
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. 
