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 [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 14th, 2009 • Category: India, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
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 28th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, India, Life, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos
Change is in the air in India as the country gears itself for its general elecions and a new government that will be formed in June. Many political observers and pundits are busy underscoring the fact that is India’s first digital elections. Well, in a way it is. In the previous elections held in 2004 [...]
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 [...]