Chances are you may or may not have heard of Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to attend an American medical college and get a medical degree. Anandibai studied at the Women’s Medical College in Pennsylvania and returned to India after completing her studies. Tragically she died within months of her return on February 27, 1887. She [...]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Books and Authors’
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 19th, 2010 • Category: Americas, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Living In America
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Books and Authors, India, People, Podcast, Video, YouTube Videos
This is Kamla Bhatt and today my guest is Danny Boyle who is director of Slumdog Millionaire, the surprise movie of 2008 that has won four Golden Globe awards and has won 10 Oscar nominations. The New York Time Magazine called Slumdog Millionaire “The ultimate Danny Boyle movie”. The film had a shoe string budget [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, People, Video, YouTube Videos
Director Tim Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland in 3D is very different from Lewis Carroll’s original books Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. Don’t go looking for Carroll’s version of Alice in Wonderland in this movie. Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland is instead inspired by the works of Carroll, where we meet a [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 23rd, 2010 • Category: Books and Authors, Ideas, India, People
The Dalai Lama,the spiritual head of Tibetans is on Twitter. This time it is official with that recognizable blue colored tick mark with “Verified Account” right next to his name.Last year a fake Twitter account was opened in his name.
The Dalai Lama is currently on a tour of the United States, and held a low-key [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 11th, 2010 • Category: Books and Authors, Ideas, India, Video, YouTube Videos
Ideas and inspirations transcend physical and geographical boundaries as history has shown us time and again. While most of us recognize the power of ideas, it still comes as a pleasant surprise when you actually see and hear people talk about who inspired them like this short video clip of Martin Luther King where he [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 16th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Diaspora, People, YouTube Videos
Americans coming to India to discover themselves is not an uncommon thing. This trend probably started in the 1960s and peaked in the 1970s. But, Americans coming to India in the 21st century to discover themselves by learning Hindi? Now, that is an uncommon thing and that is precisely what New York-based [...]