In this week’s roundup of virtual India we look at Tibet in India. Next week the Olympic torch arrives in India. First Indian footballer Bhaichung Bhutia pulled out, and now Supercop Kiran Bedi has pulled out. However, well-known Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar will be carrying the Olympic torch writes enga. area and adds:
“Sachin actually volunteered […]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Bollywood, Chinidia, Diaspora, India, Life, User Generated Content
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 […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 5th, 2008 • Category: Bollywood, Chinidia, India, Life
Here is this week’s roundup for GlobalVoices from virtual India.
It seems like Tibet refuses to go away from people’s mind. Tibet continues to be the dominant topic of conversation and is clearly gathering a lot of public support, especially in virtual India. Baichung Bhutia, India’s well-known football player has refused to carry the Olympic torch […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 22nd, 2008 • Category: Chinidia, Ideas, India, New Delhi, Podcast
India-China have had a checkered relationship for a long while and the 1962 war between the two countries have left deep scars in India. Just three years before the 1962 war the Dalai Lama fled Tibet to India and has been living in exile in Dharamsala since then.
Over a year ago I did an […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 22nd, 2008 • Category: Chinidia, Global Voices, India, People
Over the past few day the focus of the international community is on Tibet and the Chinese Government’s handling of the uprising, but over in India there has been quite a bit of debate over China’s actions in Tibet and the role of Tibet in India-China relationship. What should India’s stand be on the issue […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 29th, 2008 • Category: Books and Authors, Chinidia, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Technology
Billions of entrepreneurs in India and China? Caught your attention did it not? Well, that is the name of a new book by Harvard Professor Tarun Khanna that will be published in February 2008. The book titled, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours looks at both […]
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. 
