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By kamla bhatt • Mar 6th, 2010 • Category: Bollywood, Diaspora, Entertainment, Featured, India, Internet & Telecom, London, Mumbai, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

In this exclusive interview Oscar winner director Danny Boyle talks about the making of Slumdog Millionaire in Mumbai, whether this is an Indian or a British film or a hybrid film, AR Rahman, Loveleen Tandan, Mira Nair and  about the future of the young kids that acted in the film.
I also asked Danny if he [...]



By kamla bhatt • Jan 23rd, 2010 • Category: Books and Authors, Diaspora, Featured, People

India’s ‘tiger man” and wildlife conservationist Billy Arjan Singh passed away on Jan 1, 2010, which is also the year of the tiger according to the Chinese calendar.
Billy’s story underscores the power of what a single person can achieve if they put their mind and body to it.
For over 50 years Billy worked and fought [...]



By kamla bhatt • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

Srinija Srinivasan or Ninj or Ninja is Vice President and  editor-in-chief at Yahoo! Inc.
Ninja and her team are responsible for the content that we read everyday on Yahoo’s website.  “Shepherding the voice of Yahoo,” is how Ninja describes the work she and  her team do on a 24/7 basis every day of the year.
Ninj’s editorial [...]



By kamla bhatt • Mar 31st, 2009 • Category: Books and Authors, Featured, Ideas, India, New York

Professor Freeman Dyson talks about Srinvasa Iyengar Ramanujan, the well-known Indian, who studied and worked with Prof. Hardy at Cambridge University during the early part of the 20th century. Ramanujan was only 32 years old when he supposedly died of tuberculosis.  Prof. Dyson points out this might not be the case; Ramanujan may have instead [...]