Now that the 15th general elections are underway in India, the big question in everybody’s mind is who is going to win? Will one party take it all or will there be no clear winner, which means a coalition government or a political patchwork quilt at the center? To form the next government, either […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Bangalore’
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Bombay/Mumbai, Ideas, India, Life
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 14th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bangalore, Bollywood, India, People, Web 2.0
On April 16th, 2009 the first phase of the voting for the Indian general elections will begin and conclude on May 13th, 2009. This is the 15th general elections in India since it became independent in 1947.
There are 714 million people that are eligible to vote. About 1,368,430 electronic voting machines have been deployed across […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Diaspora, Global Voices, India, User Generated Content
History was made yesterday with the election of Barrack Obama as the 44th President of the USA. This was an election that was keenly followed by many people in India either on TV, newspaper, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, etc.
Here is a round-up that I posted on Global Voices earlier today that captures the mood and infection […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Ideas, India, San Francisco, Technology
“I work in a bus company,” said the young software engineer when I asked him where he worked.
“What is a bus company?” I asked in a puzzled tone. I had never heard that term before.
Well, it turns out that in Bangalore if you work for any of the big IT companies like Infosys, Wipro, TCS, […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Podcast, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital
TeliBrahma headed by Suresh Narasimha received $2 million as its Series A funding. Inventus Capital Partners, a VC firm headed by Kanwal Rekhi invested $1 million and with this investment Kanwal and his team make their first investment in India. I have an interview with Kanwal, where he talks about his new company Inventus and […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Ideas, India, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital
Watch out for an announcment of two Bangalore-based companies that have got funded by two Silicon Valley-based VC firms that have connections to India. One of them is in the mobile space and the other is in cleantech space.
Like one on the VCs pointed out cleantech in India will mean a totally different thing when […]
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. 
