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Using Bollywood To Spread Literacy

By kamla bhatt • Feb 15th, 2010 • Category: Bangalore, Bollywood, Business & Tech, Diaspora, Entertainment, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
 
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Using Bollywood songs to promote literacy is an innovative and powerful idea, and is the brainchild of Brij Kothari. The hallmark of every Hindi or Bollywood film are the popular song and dance sequences, which most people can either recognize, sing or hum regardless of their level of education.
Brij hit upon this novel idea of [...]


In Conversation With Nandan Nilekani Part-1

By kamla bhatt • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
 
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Nandan Nilekani is the co-founder and former head of Infosys, one of India’ s best success stories. Infosys is an Indian IT powerhouse that was founded during India’s famous “License Raj,” phase, which was known for its regulatory hurdles. Thomas Friedman in his book credits Nandan for coining that famous phrase, which became the title of  [...]


Rudresh Mahanthappa: Do You Speak Indian?

By kamla bhatt • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Diaspora, Entertainment, Featured, New York, People
 
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Rudresh Mahanthappa is a New York-based jazz musician.
Rudresh often collaborates with fellow musician and New Yorker Vijay Iyer.
In this interview we get to hear a rare behind-the-scene look on how Rudresh conceived and worked on his jazz album titled Mother Tongue: Do You Speak Indian?
Mother Tongue was released by Pi Recordings in [...]


Yahoo’s David Filo on Frugality, Early Days of Yahoo! & Bangalore

By kamla bhatt • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, USA
 
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David Filo and his classmate Jerry Yang started Yahoo! in the mid-1990s, when the Internet was just taking off. Their initial website was a collection of interesting links, a list of sorts, which eventually morphed and became a major Internet company.
In this interview David talks about the early days of Yahoo!, frugality [...]


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