Sanjaya Malakar is back. Remember him from American Idol? The singer with the funky hairstyles (ponyhawk) and a laid-back attitude? Remember the Fanjayas? Was it just a year ago that Sanjaya was the talk of the nation? To celebrate Sanjaya’s fame on American Idol there was even a Sanjaya Malakar Day declared by the South […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘People’
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, India, People, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, India, Interviews, People, YouTube Videos
Namrata Joshi is a film critic for Outlook, a national magazine published in India. She also writes articles on cinema for the magazine and recently won the best film critic award at the 52nd National Film Awards in India. Prior to Outlook Namrata wrote for India Today and Economic Times.
To say that she is passionate […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Life, Mobile, People, Start-ups
We have a nice mix of interviews that spans life, people and ideas. Murli Wanchoo is a retired Indian government official, who lives in Silicon Valley and he looks back at India in the early days. Then we have Anusuya Devi (88), who is known as the “Queen of Folk Music” of Andhra Pradesh. Age […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Events, Ideas, India, Life, People, Podcast, San Francisco, Start-ups, Technology, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos
Here is the line-up for this week’s interview.
A 2-part interview with Murugan Pal of CK-12, a non-profit organization in the education field. CK-12 is co-founded by Neeru Khosla and Murugan and they are working on providing innovative technical solution for high-school students and teachers. Murugan has an interesting background. Prior to working with CK-12 he […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Business, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Interviews, Life, People, Podcast, San Francisco, Technology
This week we will be celebrating women achievers to coincide with the BlogHer conference in San Francisco. Here is a lineup of 3 women achievers we will feature in the show this week.
Roma Kapoor works with United Way, a philanthropic organization that is over 100 years old. Roma is based in Washington DC and […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Events, Ideas, Life, People, Technology, Wi-Fi
I will be attending the annual BlogHer 2008 conference at the Westin Hotel in San Francisco from July 18-19th, 2008. This year the conference organizers are also hosting a pre-launch mixer for first timers and I hope to make it the mixer since this is my first time attending BlogHer.
The conference appears to be a […]
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. 
