Comments for The Kamla Show - India's premier podcast about India and the Global Indian

Comment on NEA’s Ravi Viswanathan on CleanTech and Building Companies by Mahesh Raghu

Mahesh Raghu — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:43:19 +0000

This interview was really good and I think what Rama is saying is that the volume was a little bit lower in this interview than in other interviews - I had to turn my volume up to the max - but it worked fine and I loved the overall theme Ravi and you talked about. Yeah - he is pretty cool for a phd holder.
In regards to Tom Friedman, I don’t really think anybody takes that book that seriously. Everyone who reads it understands that it is sensationalist I think. Nonetheless, it does have its validity in portions and added to the good press that went India’s way. He recommended you read it - never said it was a bible for budding entrepreneurs I guess. I hope you get him back for another interview some time in the future.

Comment on Microsoft’s Paul Murphy on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in India Part-1 by Ravi

Ravi — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:24:15 +0000

nice interview. depressing to hear about the whole phd thing - well - looking forward to part two.

Comment on In Conversation With Vivek Paul of TPG by kamla bhatt

kamla bhatt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:42:29 +0000

Thanks Ravi for listening and your feedback.

Cheers!

kamla

Comment on Microsoft’s Paul Murphy on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in India Part-1 by kamla bhatt

kamla bhatt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:37:30 +0000

Thanks for listening to the interview and sharing your thoughts.

Stay tuned for Part-2 of the interview.

Thanks,

Kamla

Comment on In Conversation With Vivek Paul of TPG by Ravi

Ravi — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:23:12 +0000

Damn cool interview.

Comment on Microsoft’s Paul Murphy on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in India Part-1 by surfersaint

surfersaint — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:05:12 +0000

Well it has taken a ‘concerned’ foreigner like Mr Murphy to foster and help create entrepreneurship and innovation among the Indian student community.That his work extends beyond the empty rehtoric of ‘inclusiveness’, we often hear from our political leaders in India, to provide capital, mentoring and cross-border angel investors is indeed praiseworthy_all in the great philanthropic tradition of the world’s richest man,who has always acted his age—made the biggest fortune in his youth as a pioneer software entrepreneur and now giving back to the world with the Gates’ Foundations’ activities around the world in multitudinal ways.

Comment on WiMax in India by surfersaint

surfersaint — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:47:53 +0000

WiMax or Wireless interoperability for Microwave Access might make available cheap computing and internet access to masses of India.And,by the way, whatever happened to Nicholas Negroponte’s dream of providing a laptop for $100? His model also uses hands operation for generating electricity to run the laptop_a really eco-friendly feature!

Comment on Neeru Khosla on Education and Doing a Start-Up by surfersaint

surfersaint — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:01:24 +0000

Hi there!Kamla was somewhat right in saying that ‘the trickle down effect’ of what NRIs are doing for helping educate a new generation of India.Mrs.Neeru Khosla’s initiatives in this direction,CMU’s,as also our own Prof.Raj Reddy’s project of digitization of textbooks(launched over a decade and a half back),etc are pointers in that direction.
And I can not but congratulate you for winning the PC World’s award for the best designed online radio in such a short time of your radio’s launch.I also agree with the jury’s observation that the content is somewhat serious and I know you people cann’t help it as you rightly observed that you are trying to do your bit for helping to shape an emerging global Indian from a commoner.The range of the ideas and the people(or ratheHi there! Kamla was somewhat right in saying that we,in India, have to wait for what is more than ‘the trickle-r achievers,innovators,trail blazers,etc. from diverse sections for your interviews is simply awesome!However,you could do your bit to build public opinion and proactive popular action regarding issues that are pestering the world today like the global warming,global food crises,etc.A cue may be taken from the youtube video by Nitindas,which was selected by the UN for the billion tree campaign.Anyway,literally keep up the goodshow!

Comment on Singapore Airlines Inspired By Air India? by kamla bhatt

kamla bhatt — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:54:52 +0000

Thanks Shasank for your thoughtful comments.

Yes, Air India was apparently the gold standard for airlines in the 1960s under JRD Tata.

As Raj points out Naresh Goyal has the vision, the attitude and the persistance to make Jet a global airlines.

And certainly Vijay Mallaya has the flair, flamboyance and vision to create a global airlines.

Exciting times ahead from branding perspective…but watch out for that rising oil price.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Kamla

Comment on Neeru Khosla on Education and Doing a Start-Up by kamla bhatt

kamla bhatt — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:41:16 +0000

Thanks Chetan for your comment. I think you are jumping the gun by assuming that NRIs are not looking into this…there are folks working on this and I am sure you will hear about it in good time. I think if you looked around you will notice there are quite a few organizations where NRIs are involved in helping improve access to education for people in India. When it comes to quality…you need to work with the government and the bureaucracy and that will take time.

A criticism levelled against the Indian community in the US is that we don’t give back to the local community here. Guess why? They are all busy giving back to India and education is a big part.

Hope this helps.

Kamla