One year ago, Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital came under a well-coordinated terrorist attack that lasted for 3 days. Downtown Mumbai, or “town” as it is popularly known was the target of 10 young men, who reportedly arrived by boats from Pakistan and attacked the railway station, the main artery [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 26th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bombay/Mumbai, Global Voices, India, People
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Books and Authors, Global Voices, India, People
For my latest post in Global Voices, I wrote a quick round-up about what bloggers in India had to say about Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire. The movie got mixed reviews in India. I must confess that I liked the movie for its edgy portrait of Mumbai and the message of hope and optimism. Maybe that [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Diaspora, Global Voices, India, User Generated Content
History was made yesterday with the election of Barrack Obama as the 44th President of the USA. This was an election that was keenly followed by many people in India either on TV, newspaper, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, etc.
Here is a round-up that I posted on Global Voices earlier today that captures the mood and infection [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 14th, 2008 • Category: Americas, Global Voices, Ideas, India, YouTube Videos
While most of us were obsessively tracking the twists and turns of the financial global downturn there was an important milestone that USA and India crossed that went almost unnoticed. Earlier this month President Bush signed a bill that allows for sharing civilian nuclear technology with India that will help generate nuclear energy. Energy has [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Global Voices, Ideas, Start-ups, Technology, User Generated Content, Web 2.0
Amra Tareen heads Allvoices, a San Francisco-based citizen media startup. After months of being their beta version, AllVoices released its brand new website a few days ago. Allvoices raised $4.5 million in venture capital funding last year.
Prior to founding Allvoices, Amra was with Sevin Rosen, a venture capital firm and before that she worked [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Global Voices, India
For the past few months there has been a heated debate in India about its nuclear deal with the USA. This is an issue for which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has lobbied hard and tried to get political consensus. In fact, some analysts and observers point out Mr. Singh was ready to [...]