Author Archive

By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 9th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison

Terribly sorry about this but my broadband problems have put a spanner or a money wrench in my work.  What this means is that I cannot upload any of the audio files too like the second part of the interview with Anil Raj of VNL and others. But, the good news is that we have […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Technology, Video

How is innovation different today? Are there a new set of dynamics at work? Are the days of mass production over? Is the new trend in innovation more about personalization?  Have we entered a new age of innovation that is very different from the 19th and 20th century industrial mindset that treated
consumers as an undifferentiated […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison

Sorry about the long silence and the delay in posting. I will be back on track next week with my postings.  Please do check back next week. Thanks for your support, comments and emails.



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 […]