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's Blog posts on ‘Americas’
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Books and Authors, Chinidia, Diaspora, India, People, Video
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 19th, 2008 • Category: Americas, Diaspora, India, People
Ted Sibia, 70, passed away on March 8. 2008 in Sacramento. Sibia was Head of Research Library Unit for Biology & Agriculture at the Shield Library of UC Davis until his retirement in 2006. What was special about him was the time and dedication he spent in archiving and chronicling the history of the […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 16th, 2008 • Category: Americas, Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, New York, Retail Industry, Social Media, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Web 2.0
In this week’s Sunday Column in Financial Express I look at corporate blogging in the USA. Why USA you ask? That is where corporate blogging has found quite a bit of traction in the past five years. I turned to David Berkowitz of Inside the Marketer’s Studio and Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion to find […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 13th, 2008 • Category: Americas, Events, Social Media, The New York Times, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos
The big news items dominating the US are a couple of things: politics and the economy. Every day the news kind of gets worse about the state of the economy. The recent $200 billion infusion (probably bailout is the right word) by the Fed briefly lifted the stock market. But market watchers and analysts […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 21st, 2007 • Category: Americas, Bangalore, Business, Diaspora, Electronic gadgets, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Podcast, Start-ups, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
Meet Prof. Tapan Parikh: teacher, social entrepreneur and an innovator. Tapan believes in harnessing the power of the mobile phone to create simple and effective solutions to help small and medium businesses.
Tapan developed a a simple toolkit called CAMĀ that uses the ubiquitous camera phone to capture images and scan documents, which are in […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 20th, 2007 • Category: Americas, Electronic gadgets, Events, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Technology, User Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos
Navteq’s Global Location Based Services (LBS) Challenge is currently open for folks in Asia-Pacific and Americas region. There is $3 million in cash prizes for the winning teams. LBS is the hot, new tread in the mobile space and next year LBS is expected to go through the roof. Navteq was recently acquired by Nokia for […]
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. 
