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 [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, San Francisco, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
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 [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 1st, 2009 • Category: Americas, Diaspora, India, Life, Living In America, San Francisco, Video, YouTube Videos
On July 25th 2009, the 43rd Annual Rath Yatra was held in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Over 40 years ago San Francisco became the first American city to hold this annual Rath Yatra by ISKON.I wrote an article about the Rath Yatra for Open, where I tried to capture the transformation of the phrase “Rath Yatra” [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 22nd, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, India, People, Video, YouTube Videos
Ishaara, University of California’s Hindi Film Dance aka Bollywood dance group appeared on NBC’s primetime show American’s Got Talent. They clearly wowed the audience and are moving up the ladder and participate in the next round in Las Vegas.
Currently, Ishaara is ranked as the number one dance group in the Bollywood or Hindi Film Dance [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 7th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Ideas, San Francisco, YouTube Videos
Robert Strange McNamara, 93, passed away this morning in Washington DC. And yes, his middle name was Strange.
McNamara was President of Ford Motor Company, served as Defense Secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and was head of the World Bank. But, what he is best remembered is for his role as Secretary of [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 18th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Interviews, Technology, Web 2.0
What caught my eye on my Gmail chat window was this message: “Hiring: $1500 Referral Fee.” I had not seen that kind of message in a long time. Why, it reminded me of the mid 1990s when companies could not find the right people and it was not uncommon for companies to offer a referral [...]