This is Kamla Bhatt and today my guest is Danny Boyle who is director of Slumdog Millionaire, the surprise movie of 2008 that has won four Golden Globe awards and has won 10 Oscar nominations. The New York Time Magazine called Slumdog Millionaire “The ultimate Danny Boyle movie”. The film had a shoe string budget […]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Books and Authors, India, People, Podcast, Video, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, People, San Francisco, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
(A version of this article was originally published in Open Magazine, June 6, 2009.)
(Charlie Chaplin is an icon in India. Curiously in the state of Uttar Pradesh in North India Chaplin is often referred to as “Chaliss Chaplin.” Like many kids I grew up watching Chaplin movies. Every time my dad saw Chaplin he would invariably comment: “This […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, People, Video, YouTube Videos
Director Tim Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland in 3D is very different from Lewis Carroll’s original books Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. Don’t go looking for Carroll’s version of Alice in Wonderland in this movie. Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland is instead inspired by the works of Carroll, where we meet a […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, India, New York, People, Social Media, Video, YouTube Videos
Aziz “the bored” Ansari is a rising star in the world of entertainment. Within a short span of time Aziz has carved a name for himself. He currently appears on NBC’s sitcom Parks and Recreations. He has appeared in a handful of Hollywood films and is working with Hollywood Director Judd Apatow on 3 films. Last […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
That is a demo of Cisco’s TelePresence, which provides an incredible “true-to-life” experience. Sitting around the table at this virtual meeting were people from different parts of the world. There was no lag and the quality of audio and video was superb. Using Cisco’s TelePresence is a delightful customer experience.
Currently Cisco’s TelePresence is deployed in 50 countries. […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 21st, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, People, Video, YouTube Videos
Mr. Sidney Poitier turned 83 today.
An actor, director and a diplomat, Mr. Poitier’s story reads like a textbook case of a person going from rags to riches. He grew up poor in Bahamas with little education, and came to the US when he was 15 years old. He worked in a series of menial jobs to support himself […]
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. 
