India’s Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is in Washington this week. Mr. Singh is also the guest for President Obama’s first state dinner at the White House. While this social gesture might hold some symbolic significance, the central question is this: will the US-India relationship be nudged to the next level? Where does India [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 23rd, 2009 • Category: Ideas, India, New Delhi
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 23rd, 2009 • Category: Americas, Ideas, India, Interviews, New Delhi
It was a media coup by Fareed Zakaria when he interviewed Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about 26/11, US-India relationship, his view on Pakistan and what he expects out of his visit to Washington this week. <video interview>
This was the first time the reserved and thoughtful Mr. Singh shared his views on 26/11 the, day [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Events, India, New Delhi, People, YouTube Videos
The partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 is probably one of the most under reported stories of the 20th century. However, in the last few years there has been a clear, upward trend in the number of researchers and historians, who have been excavating and unearthing this long buried event and looking and examining at it [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 21st, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, India, New Delhi, People
Rakeyesh Omprakash Mehra’s third film Delhi 6: The Journey Within had its world wide release today. The film stars Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor (whose father Anil Kapoor acted in Slumdog Millionaire), Waheeda Rehman, Rishi Kapoor, Om Puri and others. Oscar nominated AR Rahman scored the music for the film, and as usual the songs were [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 4th, 2008 • Category: India, New Delhi
Reports are streaming in that there was firing at New Delhi’s International Airport on the early hours of December 5, 2008. The news of New Delhi airport incident spread so quickly on Twitter that it was unclear if this was a terrorist or criminal attack. Curiously, the New Delhi airport story continues [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 22nd, 2008 • Category: Chinidia, Ideas, India, New Delhi, Podcast
India-China have had a checkered relationship for a long while and the 1962 war between the two countries have left deep scars in India. Just three years before the 1962 war the Dalai Lama fled Tibet to India and has been living in exile in Dharamsala since then.
Over a year ago I did an [...]