Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Americas’
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 3rd, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Living In America, People
Like Bollywood films Sex and The City has an acronym: SATC. The movie raked in $55 million this past weekend, and some point out that makes SATC the first romantic comedy film to bring in that kind of big bucks.
The movie appears to be the the talk of almost every dinner conversation this past […]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Living In America, People
Should I or you be worried by the rising costs of many essential items in the USA? (I don’t know about other countries, but I suspect the trend is the same.) Consumers have been hit very hard here in recent months and that monthly paycheck is fast disappearing. Here in Silicon Valley I am […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Americas, Ideas, India - Latin America, Life, Retail Industry
Coconut water has arrived in American in a tetrapak all the way from Brazil. I hope somebody in India has seen this tetrapak and take a leaf out of the savvy Brazilian’s marketing techniques. Coconut is supposed to be native to South Asia (Wikipedia).
It was strange to drink coconut water from a tetrapak. I grew […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 20th, 2008 • Category: Americas, Diaspora, India, Interviews, Life, Video, YouTube Videos
Meet Mani Krishnan, a strong supporter of Barack Obama from Silicon Valley. In this video clip Mani talks about why he is a supporter of Obama. I asked him about the political gaffe that was committed by Obama and his camp about the Indian American community not so long ago. Obama referred to Senator Hillary Clinton […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Books and Authors, Chinidia, Diaspora, India, People, Video
Pico Iyer’s new book: The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and his article in Time magazine about A Monk’s Struggle has created quite a bit of buzz and once again the attention of the world is drawn to the Tibet question and Beijing Olympics. Iyer first met the Dalai Lama […]
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. 
