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 [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 30th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, India, Life, New York, Only in India
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 28th, 2009 • Category: Diaspora, India, Life, Only in India, Technology
The 15th Lok Sabha elections in India is through its half-way point and as expected turnouts in the various constituencies have been pretty strong bordering 50 percent and above. Young voters (t 18-28 years) might hold the key in some of the constituencies.
We bring you a series of digital vignettes that will hopefully give us [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Bombay/Mumbai, Chennai/Madras, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Life, Living In America, Only in India, Start-ups, Technology
Are IT workers and marketing folks considered as toxic assets in the Indian marriage market? Well, if you read this latest article by The Financial Times it seems that appears to be the case. Here is what they write:
Since the recession, Indian families have been increasingly cautious about marrying their daughters off to [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 26th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Electronic gadgets, India, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Only in India, People, Technology, YouTube Videos
Every month India adds millions of new mobile users. Currently about 20 percent of India (population over 1 billion) has mobile phones. In a short span of less than 10 years the number of mobile users in India has grown from a few thousands to millions.
In India about 60 percent of the mobile handset market [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 25th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Books and Authors, Diaspora, India, Only in India, People
Fearless Nadia of Hunterwalli is a character from an old Hindi film dating back to 1935. Fearless Nadia is sometimes described as the feminine version of Zorro, and was the first stunt queen of Indian films. Yes, that is right there were stunt queens back in the early days of Hindi cinema, which is perhaps [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 10th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Business, India, Infrastructure, Life, Only in India, Technology
With due apologies to Prof. TT Ram Mohan who came up with this creative title for his post, and which I have happily borrowed from him.
The emergence of Bangalore from a laid-back garden city to a city of steel and glass buildings and and a major IT hub in India is a source of fascination [...]