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 […]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 22nd, 2008 • Category: Chinidia, Ideas, India, New Delhi, Podcast
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 28th, 2008 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, India, New Delhi
I guess this should not come as a surprise that both Delhi and Mumbai rank pretty low in a global survey when it comes to the quality of air and water. These are two key, free natural resources (dunno if water is still considered that) that are important when it comes to quality of life.
According […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 14th, 2008 • Category: India, Internet and Telecom India, New Delhi, People, Technology
Should blogging be regulated? That was the topic of conversation on Barkha Dutt’s show on NDTV last night (Sunday, January 2008) where the panel included a mix of bloggers, a psychologist, a print media person and a lawyer.
The bloggers included: Jhoomur Bose of What Goes My Father; Meenakshi Madhavan of Compulsive Confessor; Vikram Joshi of […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 5th, 2007 • Category: Bollywood, Books and Authors, Business, Electronic gadgets, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom India, New Delhi, Technology, Venture Capital
CyberMedia is South Asia’s largest specialty media company that was founded in 1982, when IT and tech industry was still in its infancy in India. Earlier this year I caught up CyberMedia’s chairperson Pradeep Gupta at the Pan-IIT Global Conference in Santa Clara, Calif.
CyberMedia’s mix of publications includes Dataquest, Voice & Data, […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 25th, 2007 • Category: Business, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom India, New Delhi, Podcast, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital
Canaan Partners has invested in techTribe, an online career networking company with offices in the US and India. Canaan Partners led the first round of institutional investment in techTribe headed by Rohit Agarwal. However, there is no information available on how much investment money techTribe received from its investors. At first blush techTribe’s differentiator in […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 15th, 2007 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, Business, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, New Delhi
Japan is stepping up its investments in India in a significant way through its involvement in the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. We can expect to see Japan’s involvement in India go into high gear, especially in the infrastructure sector.
As Financial Times put it:
“…a $90bn project to develop the 1,483km swath of land between the countrys political […]
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. 
