What we remember about 1947 when India became a free country is either Nehru’s speech or the brutal partition that displaced millions of people in a matter of days. Suddenly, there was a border when none existed either in Punjab or Bengal. Today, what we have instead is this border ceremony [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Life’
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 16th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, India, Interviews, Video, YouTube Videos
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 • Jun 15th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, People, Technology
I just found that the Kamla Bhatt Show got the best design award for the online radio category in the PC World Web Award 2008. Here is a list of the jury members.
This comes as a pleasant surprise since I was not really aware of these awards and have no idea how I made it [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 24th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Ideas, Life, YouTube Videos
“How many brain scientists can study their brain from inside out?” asks Dr.Jill Bolte Taylor, also known as the “Singing Scientist.” In this video clip (via TED) she shares her story and what she learned from her experience. She is in an unique position of having suffered a massive brain stroke at the [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Books and Authors, Ideas, Life, Technology, YouTube Videos
He has been called a dying hero. As Time magazine put it, “Randy Pausch is dying. But in the process, he’s teaching millions of people about living. Some colleges have adopted the idea of a “last lecture” to teach students life lessons that aren’t necessarily included on a syllabus.”
Meet Prof. Randy Pausch, computer science [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Americas, Ideas, India - Latin America, Life, Retail Industry
Coconut water has arrived in American in a tetrapak all the way from Brazil. I hope somebody in India has seen this tetrapak and take a leaf out of the savvy Brazilian’s marketing techniques. Coconut is supposed to be native to South Asia (Wikipedia).
It was strange to drink coconut water from a tetrapak. I grew [...]