In the last couple of years travel portals have become a dominant feature of the Indian startup landscape. Many of these travel portals have received a nice chunk of change from various VCs and angels. Gurgaon-based iXiGO became the latest travel related startup to receive its first round of undisclosed round of funding from BAF […]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 25th, 2008 • Category: Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Start-ups, Technology, Travel, Venture Capital
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 1st, 2008 • Category: Bollywood, India, Life, Technology, Travel
Wishing all of you a very happy, peaceful and healthy 2008.
Thanks for your continuing support, suggestions and emails from last year. Last year was a great year, where we produced and hosted over 100 audio posts, over 80 video clips and hundreds of blogs posts. The most unsurprising part was the traffic for the video clips […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 12th, 2007 • Category: Travel
Finally arrived in Macau. I say finally because the last leg of the journey was a bit tedious. Once you arrive in Hong Kong it takes about 4 hours to arrive in Macau. The reason? You need to go through various lines before you finally board the ferry that takes you to Macau. The actually travel time between Hong Kong […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 24th, 2007 • Category: India, Travel
The Financial Times’ Amy Yee has a great profile of Priya Paul, who heads The Park Hotel, a boutique hotel chain in India. In the article Yee outlines how Priya helped grow her family-owned Park Hotel’s business. Priya was only 24 years in 1992 when she took over running the hotel chain.
Here is the link to the […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 27th, 2007 • Category: India, Travel
Bruce Wallace of LA Times has a piece laced with humor on how in India customer feedback is king. On a recent trip to India he was bombarded by customer feedback cards at every stop: hotels, airlines etc. He also got an email from the head of Oberoi Hotel urging him to fill that customer feedback card […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 20th, 2007 • Category: Travel
Sorry for the delay in posts this past week. I have been traveling back and forth from the East to the West Coast and was stuck at New York airport for the better part of Friday trying to get back to San Francisco. I had to take a detour to Pittsburgh and come to San […]
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. 
