Kamla's Blog posts on ‘New York’

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 […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 4th, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, New York, People

I have refrained from writing any posts on Owen Wilson and his recent tragic episode. However, I could not refrain from writing this post about his latest film Darjeeling Limited that was shot quite extensively in India.
Wilson is one of my favorite actors who just completed Darjeeling Limited (youtube link) directed by Wes Anderson. Alas, the movie has […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 29th, 2007 • Category: Diaspora, Food, Ideas, New York, Podcast, The New York Times

New York’s Devi Restaurant located on E.18th Street pulled down the shutters earlier this week according to The New York Times. The staff of the restaurant has apparently sued the owner of the restaurant at a Manhattan Federal Court adds the paper. (Thanks Arzan for the tip.)
Hemant Mathur, who was the executive chef at […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 25th, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Books and Authors, Events, New York, User Generated Content, YouTube Videos

Thanks to Evelyn Garski from Germany who pointed me to this MySpace page on King of Bollywood aka Shah Rukh Khan. The page is devoted to Anupama Chopra’s new book on Shah Rukh Khan. I was pleasantly surprised to see my video clip of Anu on Shah Rukh Khan, but sadly my name is spelt incorrectly […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 5th, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, Events, New York

Food is a bond that unites the people of two countries: India and Pakistan. While this might not be evident in South Asia …it is amply evident in US and other parts of the world where food is a common bond that draws the two communities together. For instance, if you want to eat the […]