He has done it once again. He did it with Bollywood films, he did it with his role in Danny Boyle’s Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire. And he has done it with making the crossover from mainstream Indian cinema to mainstream American TV. We are talking about Anil Kapoor, who made his prime time TV debut in the wildly […]
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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 […]
A very Happy New Year to all of you. Thank you all for your support and for sending in your feedback & suggestions via comments, emails and tweets.
As many of you may already know 2009 was a very interesting year, where my show was featured on Mint and NDTV’s websites. I had an […]
What you can’t do in real life, you can do in movies commented Bollywood’s film writer Jaideep Sahni in an interview. Sahini’s stories reflect that line of thinking in movies like Khosla Ka Ghosla, Chak De! India and now Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year. For the second time Sahni teamed up with director Shimit […]
New York-based jazz musicians Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa are two of the rising stars in the jazz world. For over 10 years the two musicians have worked together, and also on their own independent projects. Their work has received critical acclaim. It is not very often that you come across musicians from the Indian-American […]
Robin Williams is back: big time, to use his current favorite phrase. Last week he was on Charlie Rose’s show (link to the interview) where he spoke about his heart surgery, bounding back, his new show and his mentor Jonathan Winters. Don’t miss his spot-on imitation of Jack Nicholson and and Marlon Brando. Just for fun […]
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. 




