Arjun Janah recently returned to New York City after spending a couple of years in the San Francisco bay area. He was working on a book project for his father, the well-known photographer Sunil Janah.
In this poem New York City is his muse.
By Foley Square
Arjun Janah
This afternoon, I settled, where Centre crosses Reade,
Within Manhattan’s bosom, […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Living In America’
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, Life, Living In America
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, Life, Living In America
Sesame Street, the popular TV show for pre-school kids in the USA will feature its first desi character: Leela. The next season of Sesame Street debuts on PBS Kids on August 11, 2008.
Leela works in a laundromat in the show. She is steeped in her desi culture and will be seen singing and dancing with […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: India, Life, Living In America
Gas prices are a good conversation starter here in the San Francisco Bay area. Every time I pull into a gas station I end up talking to a couple of people about the spiraling gas price. One lady said she paid almost $80 to fill up her SUV and that she has stopped using premium […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, India, Life, Living In America, San Francisco
Kartar Dhillon passed away earlier this month in Berkeley, California and she “Ain’t No Old Lady,” as Ranbir Sidhu writes. She was 93 years old.
Kartar or Kar as she was called was an activist and a writer, who was a fount of information about the early Punjabi settlers in California. She was somebody I wanted […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Life, Living In America, San Francisco, Social Media, Video, YouTube Videos
It is hard to believe that my two weeks of break just flew by so quickly. I learned quite a bit during my break and discovered the power of meeting and reconnecting with old and new friends. I finally found time to meet many old friends, make new friends and also discovered that the […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 14th, 2008 • Category: Dubai, Events, Living In America, Planes and Automobiles, Travel
Later this evening Jet Airway’s maiden flight from San Francisco to Mumbai via Shanghai will take off. At 6 pm this evening Jet Airways has a little do to celebrate this event at the San Francisco Airport. I hope to be there and write a post about it and hopefully take some pictures. Like I […]
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. 
