Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Video’

By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Living In America, San Francisco, Technology, Video

Steve Jobs clearly recognizes the power of storytelling.
A consummate marketer Jobs known the art of storytelling, and this Stanford Commencement address is a great example. “I have 3 stories to share,” he says in his introduction. The 3 stories seem to map to birth, life/love and death. The cycle of life. Jobs apparently subscribes to Buddhist […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 21st, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Interviews, People, Podcast, Video, YouTube Videos

He has done it once again. He did it with Bollywood films, he did it with his role in Danny Boyle’s Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire. And he has done it with making the crossover from mainstream Indian cinema to mainstream American TV. We are talking about Anil Kapoor, who made his prime time TV debut in the wildly […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 12th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Life, Video, YouTube Videos

What you can’t do in real life, you can do in movies commented Bollywood’s film writer Jaideep Sahni in an interview. Sahini’s stories reflect that line of thinking in movies like Khosla Ka Ghosla, Chak De! India and now Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year. For the second time Sahni teamed up with director Shimit […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, San Francisco, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos

Over the long Thanksgiving weekend San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom made his first maiden trip to Bangalore, India. Interestingly, for over 100 years San Francisco has been an entry point for Indians, many of whom came from the region of Punjab and were often referred to as Hindus in the early 20th century. Reportedly, the […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bangalore, Diaspora, Interviews, Living In America, People, Podcast, Video, YouTube Videos

New York-based jazz musicians Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa are two of the rising stars in the jazz world. For over 10 years the two musicians have worked together, and also on their own independent projects. Their work  has received critical acclaim. It is not very often that you come across musicians from the Indian-American […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, People, Video, YouTube Videos

Robin Williams is back: big time, to use his current favorite phrase. Last week he was on Charlie Rose’s show (link to the interview) where he spoke about his heart surgery, bounding back, his new show and his mentor Jonathan Winters. Don’t miss his spot-on imitation of Jack Nicholson and and Marlon Brando.  Just for fun […]


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