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Bangalore’s Cartoonist Paul Fernandes

By kamla bhatt • May 4th, 2012 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Featured, India, People, Video

Meet Bangalore’s cartoonist Paul Fernandes, who found that he could not stay away from the city even if he wanted to. There is something about this “city of pubs,” “pensioner’s paradise,” “garden city” that keeps him grounded and happy. It is the many moods of that happy, delightful and lazy charm of an old Bangalore [...]

Steve Hamm on Bangalore Tiger – Wipro

By kamla bhatt • Apr 9th, 2012 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Featured, Ideas, India, Video

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Steve Hamm’s Bangalore Tiger: How Indian Tech Upstart Wipro Is Rewriting the Rules of Global Competition traces the growth and success of Azim Premji and his company Wipro. Wipro is one of the largest Information Technology (IT) companies of India. Wipro, along with Infosys are the two major IT companies that put Bangalore on the global [...]

Spy Princess: Noor Inayat Khan

By kamla bhatt • Apr 6th, 2012 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Featured, India, People, Video

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Spy Princess: Noor Inayat Khan is a biography written by London-based Shrabani Basu. Noor is an intriguing historical figure for a number of reasons , including a Bangalore/Mysore connection through the famous Tipu Sultan. She was the only woman spy of Indian heritage that fought in World War II, and was also the first woman radio [...]

Academy Winner John Knoll on Technology in Filmmaking

By kamla bhatt • Mar 27th, 2012 • Category: Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Video

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Academy-award winner John Knoll works behind the scenes, but you have probably seen his visual effects magic in “Avatar,” “Rango,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Hugo,” Mission Impossible,” “Star Wars” and many other films. Knoll is a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic and in 2007 won an Academy award for Best Visual Effects [...]