Archives for the ‘New York’ Category

Adam Greenfield on Everyware: Dawn of Ubiquitous Computing

By kamla bhatt • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, New York, USA

Privacy online is a big hot button issue these days. Much before it went mainstream, Adam Greenfield has been talking about and wrote a  fascinating book called, “Everyware.” Currently he is head of design direction for service and user-interface design at Nokia, Finland.
Adam says everyware is “information processing embedded in the objects and surfaces of [...]



Madhur Jaffrey On Taste Memories of Delhi

By kamla bhatt • Jan 29th, 2010 • Category: Bollywood, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Entertainment, India, New Delhi, New York, People

Madhur Jaffrey , a well-known actress & author of several cooks books & TV shows talks about her autobirograhy: Climbing The Mango Trees.
In this autobiography she paints a wonderful picture of her childhood in India. Madhur grew up in a large “joint family,” in Delhi during the 1930s and 1940s. So in the book she [...]



Rudresh Mahanthappa: Do You Speak Indian?

By kamla bhatt • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Diaspora, Entertainment, Featured, New York, People

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 [...]



Jazz Musician Vijay Iyer Part-I

By kamla bhatt • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Chennai, Diaspora, Entertainment, Featured, India, Internet & Telecom, New York, People, USA

Vijay Iyer is a New York-based jazz musician and composer, and consistently won praise for his composition and music and is identified as one of the rising jazz artists in the USA.
early years and his decision to become a musician.
In this 2-part  interview Vijay talks about his early years and his decision to become a [...]