Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Video’

By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 17th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, India, People, Video, YouTube Videos

Bob Bogle (75), co-founder of The Ventures, the famous music group,  passed away today. Bogle along with Don Wilson formed The Ventures in the late 1950s. Their brand of music gave rise to what came to be labelled as “surf music,” and I suspect their number “Wipeout,” is a favorite song of many non-surfers. I know it is mine.


By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 16th, 2009 • Category: Americas, Bangalore, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Living In America, Video, YouTube Videos

A major trend that I have been following this past year is the growing political awareness among South Asians aka desis.  Like others, I  noticed there was an increased involvement from the desi community during the 2009 US Presidential elections. Not only was there an increase in the number of desi candidates running for elections […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 14th, 2009 • Category: India, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos

Millions of people are gearing up in India to participate in the world’s largest democratic election in the world. A clear trend in this year’s election campaign is the spurt in online grassroot political movement, esp from  urban areas. The goal of these grassroot movements is to educate and make voters aware of their political […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 14th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, New York, People, Video, YouTube Videos

In India movie stars and filmmakers wield enormous influence and that point was drawn dramatically by Danny Boyle in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Hint: it is the toilet scene. Interestingly, the entertainment industry, (especially Bollywood or the Hindi film industry based in Mumbai)  involvement in Indian politics was pretty marginal with a few a actors […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 29th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Chennai/Madras, India, People, Video, YouTube Videos

This is perhaps the first Indian general electins where so many Indian film makers and stars are involved. This is not the first general election where movie stars are playing a significant role, but this is perhaps the first time where a large number of them are involved and that is what is different. While […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 29th, 2009 • Category: Bollywood, India, People, Video, YouTube Videos

This recent article from Times Online caught my eye: Battle of Bollywood as stars take sides in Indian poll. The article caught my eyes for two reasons. One was when they spoke about  South Indian actress Nandita Morarji being tapped by Sonia Gandhi of the Congress Party. I thought I knew my South Indian film history, […]


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