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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 [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Interviews, People, Podcast, San Francisco
By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bangalore, Diaspora, Interviews, Living In America, People, Podcast, Video, YouTube Videos
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 [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 22nd, 2009 • Category: Diaspora, Food, Ideas, India
What a difference a few months make. It was not so long ago that many eyebrows shot up at the apparent low-priority that the newly-elected President Obama placed on India. While Obama made AF-PAK a top foreign policy priority for his administration and reached out to the leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan, [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Events, India, New Delhi, People, YouTube Videos
The partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 is probably one of the most under reported stories of the 20th century. However, in the last few years there has been a clear, upward trend in the number of researchers and historians, who have been excavating and unearthing this long buried event and looking and examining at it [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 14th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Books and Authors, Diaspora, People, Travel
(A version of this article was originally published in Traveller’s India magazine (USA) in 2005.)
Stephen Alter is a second generation Pahadi American just like his first cousin Bollywood actor Tom Alter.
Born in the hot and dusty plains of Uttar Pradesh, Alter grew up in the foothills of Himalayas, where he [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 2nd, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Ideas
Today, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) celebrates its 60th anniversary of communist rule. But, the communist rule that currently prevails in China is far removed from Chairman Mao Zedong’s communist rule and policies.
It is interesting that along with sending congratulations to the PRC leadership, the US also chose to announce that it has appointed [...]