One year ago, Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital came under a well-coordinated terrorist attack that lasted for 3 days. Downtown Mumbai, or “town” as it is popularly known was the target of 10 young men, who reportedly arrived by boats from Pakistan and attacked the railway station, the main artery [...]
Archive for November, 2009
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 26th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bombay/Mumbai, Global Voices, India, People
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 23rd, 2009 • Category: Ideas, India, New Delhi
India’s Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is in Washington this week. Mr. Singh is also the guest for President Obama’s first state dinner at the White House. While this social gesture might hold some symbolic significance, the central question is this: will the US-India relationship be nudged to the next level? Where does India [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 23rd, 2009 • Category: Americas, Ideas, India, Interviews, New Delhi
It was a media coup by Fareed Zakaria when he interviewed Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about 26/11, US-India relationship, his view on Pakistan and what he expects out of his visit to Washington this week. <video interview>
This was the first time the reserved and thoughtful Mr. Singh shared his views on 26/11 the, day [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 22nd, 2009 • Category: Diaspora, Food, Ideas, India
What a difference a few months make. It was not so long ago that many eyebrows shot up at the apparent low-priority that the newly-elected President Obama placed on India. While Obama made AF-PAK a top foreign policy priority for his administration and reached out to the leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan, [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 20th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, People
I simply could not bring myself to put this book down. And what is this book that kept me engaged the whole evening? It was a wonderful little book called Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman. And to think that I had almost passed up the book when [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Events, India, New Delhi, People, YouTube Videos
The partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 is probably one of the most under reported stories of the 20th century. However, in the last few years there has been a clear, upward trend in the number of researchers and historians, who have been excavating and unearthing this long buried event and looking and examining at it [...]