Kamla's Blog posts on ‘New York’

By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, India, New York, People, Social Media, Video, YouTube Videos

Aziz “the bored” Ansari is a rising star in the world of entertainment. Within a short span of time Aziz has carved a name for himself. He  currently appears on NBC’s sitcom Parks and Recreations. He has appeared in a handful of Hollywood films and is working with Hollywood Director Judd Apatow on 3 films.  Last […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 7th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, India, New York, People

It would be fair to say that Slumdog Millionaire  put a huge spotlight on the Indian film industry and Bollywood  at an international level. Today all things Bollywood, whether it is the the latest movie or Bollywood inspired aerobic exercise  are covered by various online and print media in the  USA. […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 30th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, India, Life, New York, Only in India

Arjun Janah left this poem about Shashi Tharoor as a comment on one of my blog posts. I am taking the liberty of publishing it. Arjun is based in New York, and is a graduate of St. Stephen’s just like Mr.Tharoor, who is running for elections from his home town of Trivandrum, Kerala.
 
For the past few years Arjun has been involved in helping his […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 14th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, New York, People, Video, YouTube Videos

In India movie stars and filmmakers wield enormous influence and that point was drawn dramatically by Danny Boyle in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Hint: it is the toilet scene. Interestingly, the entertainment industry, (especially Bollywood or the Hindi film industry based in Mumbai)  involvement in Indian politics was pretty marginal with a few a actors […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 16th, 2008 • Category: Americas, Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, New York, Retail Industry, Social Media, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Web 2.0

In this week’s Sunday Column in Financial Express I look at corporate blogging in the USA. Why USA you ask? That is where corporate blogging has found quite a bit of traction in the past five years. I turned to David Berkowitz of Inside the Marketer’s Studio and Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion to find […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 15th, 2007 • Category: Business, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Merger & Acquisition, New York, The New York Times

Earlier this month Vikram Pandit was named the CEO of CitiGroup Inc. Pandit replaces Chuck Prince, who resigned in November 2007. CitiGroup’s stock has suffered major setbacks at the stock market and the deepening mortgage sub-prime crisis is not helping the fortunes of the company either.
Originally from Nagpur, Pandit went to the US right after […]