In early March there was a lot of buzz around Cisco’s press release about how it plans to “forever change the Internet.” What was this big technology announcement that Cisco was going to make? Could it be a new set-top box? Could it be Cisco would take a leadership role in the last mile access [...]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Interviews’
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 17th, 2010 • Category: Business, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Americas, Business, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, San Francisco, Technology, Venture Capital
A few of the magical ingredients of what makes Silicon Valley unique is the easy access to mentors and investors. I turned to Yogen Dalal an engineer-turned entrepreneur-turned venture capitalist to find out the answers to many unanswered questions. Yogen came to Silicon Valley in the early 1970s to study at Stanford University. He is the Managing [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Americas, Bombay/Mumbai, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Venture Capital
Invariably when a first time visitor drives down highway 101, the main artery to Silicon Valley their first question is: Where is Silicon Valley? I don’t see any tall buildings? Well, there are a few tall buildings you can spot, but for most part Silicon Valley consists of low, mostly 2-storey nondescript office buildings that are home to many, many [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 21st, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Interviews, People, Podcast, Video, YouTube Videos
He has done it once again. He did it with Bollywood films, he did it with his role in Danny Boyle’s Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire. And he has done it with making the crossover from mainstream Indian cinema to mainstream American TV. We are talking about Anil Kapoor, who made his prime time TV debut in the wildly [...]
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
A very Happy New Year to all of you. Thank you all for your support and for sending in your feedback & suggestions via comments, emails and tweets.
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 [...]
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 [...]