Archives for the ‘Entertainment’ Category

Kreeda’s Quentin Staes-Polet Part-1

By kamla bhatt • Dec 9th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Diaspora, Entertainment, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, VC & Private Equity Funding
 
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After a couple of aborted attempts to interview, I finally caught up with Quentin Staes-Polet, CEO of Kreeda in Bangalore. In fact I spotted Quentin on the lobby of The Leela Hotel and he graciously agreed to do the interview. For over a year now I have been aware that Quentin and his co-founders [...]



Junnoon’s Executive Chef Kirti Pant Part-2

By kamla bhatt • Oct 4th, 2007 • Category: Diaspora, Entertainment, Featured, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
 
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In Part-2 of our conversation Kirti Pant, Executive Chef at Junnoon in Palo Alto, California, talks about how his decision to become a chef. Junnoon (video link) is one of the hottest Indian restaurants in the San Francisco Bay area, and was rated as one of the best new restaurants in 2006 by Esquire [...]



In Conversation With Ameen Sayani - Final Episode

By kamla bhatt • Sep 11th, 2007 • Category: Bollywood, Entertainment, Featured, India, Mumbai, People
 
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In this final episode of our conversation Mr. Sayani talks about his friendship with music director Roshan, who is Hrithik Roshan’s grandfather.
We also get to hear Mr. Sayani’s thoughts about the quality of the current radio shows in India.
Besides radio what keeps Mr. Sayani occupied these days? It is a new project called “Crisis [...]



In Conversation With Shekhar Kapur Part-2

By kamla bhatt • Sep 1st, 2007 • Category: Bollywood, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Entertainment, India, London, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
 
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In Part-2 of our conversation with Director/Writer Shekhar Kapur he talks about technology, new media, comics and his future film projects.
Shekhar is an avid blogger and shares his thoughts on why he blogs. He is also fascinated with technology and new media and is in talks with the creators of Second Life for [...]