Sanjaya Malakar is back. Remember him from American Idol? The singer with the funky hairstyles (ponyhawk) and a laid-back attitude? Remember the Fanjayas? Was it just a year ago that Sanjaya was the talk of the nation? To celebrate Sanjaya’s fame on American Idol there was even a Sanjaya Malakar Day declared by the South […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Diaspora’
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, India, People, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Life, Mobile, People, Start-ups
We have a nice mix of interviews that spans life, people and ideas. Murli Wanchoo is a retired Indian government official, who lives in Silicon Valley and he looks back at India in the early days. Then we have Anusuya Devi (88), who is known as the “Queen of Folk Music” of Andhra Pradesh. Age […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Bollywood, Diaspora, Ideas, Social Media, TechLife - Financial Express, Web 2.0
In this Sunday’s TechLife column in Financial Express the topic is virtual Bollywood and how there is now a new class of Bollywood fans that has been made possible by the spread of Internet and web 2.0 technologies. This new undiscovered class of Bollywood fans are the new age movie goers and I am wondering […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 16th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, India, Interviews, Video, YouTube Videos
What we remember about 1947 when India became a free country is either Nehru’s speech or the brutal partition that displaced millions of people in a matter of days. Suddenly, there was a border when none existed either in Punjab or Bengal. Today, what we have instead is this border ceremony […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Events, Ideas, India, Life, People, Podcast, San Francisco, Start-ups, Technology, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos
Here is the line-up for this week’s interview.
A 2-part interview with Murugan Pal of CK-12, a non-profit organization in the education field. CK-12 is co-founded by Neeru Khosla and Murugan and they are working on providing innovative technical solution for high-school students and teachers. Murugan has an interesting background. Prior to working with CK-12 he […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, Life, Living In America
Arjun Janah recently returned to New York City after spending a couple of years in the San Francisco bay area. He was working on a book project for his father, the well-known photographer Sunil Janah.
In this poem New York City is his muse.
By Foley Square
Arjun Janah
This afternoon, I settled, where Centre crosses Reade,
Within Manhattan’s bosom, […]
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. 
