Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Diaspora’

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, […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 20th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Venture Capital, Video

It has been almost a month since I wrote my last TechLife column in Financial Express, but I am back this week. In this week’s column I take a look at the complex world of video ad networks, which appears to be a global trend and Indian investors have also jumped into the bandwagon.  Just this month […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, Life, Living In America

Sesame Street, the popular TV show for pre-school kids in the USA will feature its first desi character: Leela.  The next season of Sesame Street debuts on PBS Kids on August 11, 2008.
Leela works in a laundromat in the show. She is steeped in her desi culture and will be seen singing and dancing with […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Business, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Interviews, Life, People, Podcast, San Francisco, Technology

This week we will be celebrating women achievers to coincide with the BlogHer conference in San Francisco. Here is a lineup of 3 women achievers we will feature in the show this week.
Roma Kapoor works with United Way, a philanthropic organization that is over 100 years old. Roma is based in Washington DC and […]