This evening the cast and crew of Slumdog Millionaire made a clean sweep at the Oscars by winning 8 awards out of 10 nominations. The tone for the evening was set when Simon Beaufoy, who wrote the screenplay won the first Oscars. The second half of the show was dominated by Slumdog Millionaire.Slumdog Millionaire won the Oscar […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Interviews’
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 23rd, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, Interviews, People
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 18th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Interviews, Technology, Web 2.0
What caught my eye on my Gmail chat window was this message: “Hiring: $1500 Referral Fee.” I had not seen that kind of message in a long time. Why, it reminded me of the mid 1990s when companies could not find the right people and it was not uncommon for companies to offer a referral […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Technology, Web 2.0
Thanks for your continuing support and encouragement without which we would not be able to move forward. We are doing a 12-part online radio series with Mint for their LiveMint Radio Show that is launching next week. The series is titled “Tune In To The Future.” The first 3 guests on the show are Yogen […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Podcast, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital
TeliBrahma headed by Suresh Narasimha received $2 million as its Series A funding. Inventus Capital Partners, a VC firm headed by Kanwal Rekhi invested $1 million and with this investment Kanwal and his team make their first investment in India. I have an interview with Kanwal, where he talks about his new company Inventus and […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 12th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Podcast, Technology, Venture Capital
Earlier today I spent a couple of hours talking to Yogen Dalal, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund. Yes, I was there to interview him, and he was such a gracious host and spent an extra hour talking on a whole range of topics not directly related to the interview. Yogen is a fascinating conversationalist and I […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, India, Interviews, People, YouTube Videos
Namrata Joshi is a film critic for Outlook, a national magazine published in India. She also writes articles on cinema for the magazine and recently won the best film critic award at the 52nd National Film Awards in India. Prior to Outlook Namrata wrote for India Today and Economic Times.
To say that she is passionate […]
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. 
