Posts Tagged ‘diaspora’

By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, India, Life, Living In America, San Francisco

Kartar Dhillon passed away earlier this month in Berkeley, California and she “Ain’t No Old Lady,” as Ranbir Sidhu writes. She was 93 years old.
Kartar or Kar as she was called was an activist and a writer, who was a fount of information about the early Punjabi settlers in California. She was somebody I wanted […]


By Kamla Bhatt • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Events, Ideas, Technology

The annual TiE jamboree begins this weekend at the Santa Clara Convention Center. This year’s theme is Entrepreneurship Unbounded and there is an interesting mix of speakers and panelists that straddles technology, pharma and new media. Guests include Peter Theil, Elon Musk, Chairman of Tesla Motors, Bill Campbell of Intuit, Naresh Goyal of Jet […]


By Kamla Bhatt • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Bollywood, Diaspora, India, Life, YouTube Videos

As a long time denizen of the San Francisco Bay Area (with a brief interlude in Manhattan, NY) it has been fascinating to see the way Bollywood’s influence has grown in this area. Used to be about 10 years ago there was just one movie theatre in Fremont that showed Hindi or Bollywood films. It […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 16th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Diaspora, People, Social Media

Personality Not Included is a new book by well-known digital strategist and blogger Rohit Bhargava. Rohit and his team have put together a brilliant 360 degree strategy to launch the book and his new project called Personality Project that will feature blogs by well-known CMOs and marketing folks from various companies.
I caught up […]