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 […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Infrastructure’
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Life, Mobile, People, Start-ups
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Technology
India has the fastest growing mobile subscriber base in the world and is now ranked 2nd right after China. In order to grow its mobile consumer base Indian and Chinese telecom operators have recognized there is a need to reach out to the rural areas and provide viable, sustainable and efficient telecom infrastructure before they […]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Business, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Venture Capital
In this week’s column in Financial Express the topic is about cleantech and the connection between Silicon Valley and India. Last week during the TiECon in Silicon Valley cleantech was a major topic of discussion and I met a venture capitalist and an entrepreneur who are doing some very interesting things in this space. Ravi […]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Events, Ideas, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Planes and Automobiles, San Francisco, Social Media, Technology
This year’s TiECon was a bit low-keyed and somber and was in ways a reflection of the economic situation in the USA. There were about 2,500 that attended the conference. However on the second day it seemed like there were fewer people, when compared to the first day.
The two opening keynote speakers on both days […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos
Earlier this morning I met with Naresh Gupta at Adobe’s headquarters in downtown San Jose, California. Naresh is the Managing Director of Adobe India and head of R&D Labs in emerging markets in India, China and Romania. Naresh helped set up Adobe’s R&D lab in Noida, India over 10 years ago and has helped […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 10th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Business, India, Infrastructure, Life, Only in India, Technology
With due apologies to Prof. TT Ram Mohan who came up with this creative title for his post, and which I have happily borrowed from him.
The emergence of Bangalore from a laid-back garden city to a city of steel and glass buildings and and a major IT hub in India is a source of fascination […]
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. 
