Seema Chaturvedi is managing director of Accelerator Group, located in Michigan. Last week, Seema was in New York for a private equity conference that her group organized and I caught up with her to find out about opportunities for investments in India. What was more interesting to find out was the merger and acquisition opportunities […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Planes and Automobiles’
By Kamla Bhatt • May 2nd, 2007 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, New York, Planes and Automobiles, Podcast, Technology
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 30th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Ideas, India, Planes and Automobiles, Video
Is the Andhra Pradesh State Transport Corporation going green? It seems like it. The state owned transportation company is switching to biodiesel fuel in order to reduce pollution. They are taking it slow by having one bus depot operate biodiesel fuel in about 23 districts. A while ago Andhra Pradesh experimented with biodiesel buses in […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 9th, 2007 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, Business, Ideas, Only in India, Planes and Automobiles
There is a really great interview of Ratan Tata in Spiegel. In the interview among other things like steel and IT Mr. Tata also talks about $2,000 car that is expected to hit the Indian road in 2008. Here is what Mr. Tata has to say about the car:
“And you know why we took on […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 9th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Diaspora, Ideas, Planes and Automobiles
Bangalore-based aviation company Deccan Airlines is reportedly looking to dilute its stake and selling a small percentage to raise a new round of money. Deccan, the no-frills airlines have a couple of financial suitors interested in picking up a minority stake in the airlines company, and among them is Texas Pacific Group.
According to Business Standard, Texas Pacific […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 22nd, 2007 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, Ideas, India, Planes and Automobiles, Technology
The Air Car is coming to India courtesey the Tatas.
What is an air car? An air car runs on compressed air, and is a zero pollution vehicle and is getting ready to be commercially rolled out. The air car is manufactured by Moteur Development International (MDI) that was founded in Luxemburg, but now based in […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 20th, 2007 • Category: Ideas, Life, Planes and Automobiles, San Francisco, Technology
Tesla, the new electric car from Silicon Valley has been in the spotlight for a few months now. Apparently the electric car company has borrowed quite a few things from IT companies and hopes to make their product a success like say an Apple.
Elizabeth Corcoran of Forbes has a really nice, long article about […]
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. 
