Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of ‘internet radio’ format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premièred her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas.

“We need heroes and role models that are relevant to the new and emerging India. There are hundreds of stories out there of inspiration, motivation and innovation waiting to be discovered and told. I am passionate about getting those stories told and heard.”

The eclectic nature of the show is to appeal to the inquisitive and thinking Indian or Indophile, who wants to listen and enjoy a good conversation. The show is broadly divided into Life, People and Ideas.

The focus of The Kamla Bhatt Show is to present consistently good conversations that can enrich you. When listening to these conversations the goal is to help you find “the elation that comes of swift contact with the tingling currents of thoughts,” as Agnes Repplier put it. And “that “swift contact with the tingling currents of thoughts,” might spark off when you listen to a writer describe how they found inspiration for their novel, or an entrepreneur talk of their struggle to build their company, or hear a film maker describe how they can up with the storyline for their film.

Guests on her show include pioneers, visionaries, entrepreneurs and creative artists like Arun Sarin, David Filo, Ameen Sayani, Prof. Freeman Dyson, Shyam Benegal, Madhur Jaffrey, Yogen Dalal, Rajat Gupta, Gopal Srinivasan, Shekhar Kapoor, Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Vinod Dham, Vikram Chandra, Anita Nair, Anupama Chopra and Kittu Kolluri among others.

Kamla started her media career during the dotcom boom in the mid-1990s in Silicon Valley. Having worked in several tech companies in Silicon Valley Kamla gained an insider’s perspective into the startup culture.

Her articles have been published in Financial Express, Business Standard, Outlook, India Abroad, Rediff, Silicon India and Mantram. She currently writes a technology column in Financial Express.

Kamla has an undergraduate degree in History and Economics from Women’s Christian College, India, Masters in International Relations and Political Economy from Marquette University, USA and MPhil in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

She and her husband divide their time between the USA and India.



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