Steve Jobs clearly recognizes the power of storytelling.
A consummate marketer Jobs known the art of storytelling, and this Stanford Commencement address is a great example. “I have 3 stories to share,” he says in his introduction. The 3 stories seem to map to birth, life/love and death. The cycle of life. Jobs apparently subscribes to Buddhist […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Living In America’
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Living In America, San Francisco, Technology, Video
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 • Aug 1st, 2009 • Category: Americas, Diaspora, India, Life, Living In America, San Francisco, Video, YouTube Videos
On July 25th 2009, the 43rd Annual Rath Yatra was held in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Over 40 years ago San Francisco became the first American city to hold this annual Rath Yatra by ISKON.I wrote an article about the Rath Yatra for Open, where I tried to capture the transformation of the phrase “Rath Yatra” […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 18th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, Diaspora, India, Living In America, People, YouTube Videos
There is a new trend in the US: Bollywood inspired exercise routines. While some may consider this new and attribute it to last year’s Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millioniare … the truth is that this trend has been around for a few years. I first heard about it almost 10 years ago when Sarina Jain […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 16th, 2009 • Category: Americas, Bangalore, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Living In America, Video, YouTube Videos
A major trend that I have been following this past year is the growing political awareness among South Asians aka desis. Like others, I noticed there was an increased involvement from the desi community during the 2009 US Presidential elections. Not only was there an increase in the number of desi candidates running for elections […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Bombay/Mumbai, Chennai/Madras, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Life, Living In America, Only in India, Start-ups, Technology
Are IT workers and marketing folks considered as toxic assets in the Indian marriage market? Well, if you read this latest article by The Financial Times it seems that appears to be the case. Here is what they write:
Since the recession, Indian families have been increasingly cautious about marrying their daughters off to […]
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. 
