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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hindi films’
By kamla bhatt • Feb 15th, 2010 • Category: Bangalore, Bollywood, Business & Tech, Diaspora, Entertainment, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
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 [...]
By kamla bhatt • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: Bollywood, Entertainment, Featured, India, Life, USA
Beth Watkins is a self-confessed Bollywood addict, and is part of a growing tribe of Bollywood fans in North America.
Her interest in Bollywood underscores a growing trend that Bollywood films appeal to a wide audience who are not necessarily from Asia or Africa, the traditional domain of Hindi films.
Pico Iyer summed it up very [...]
By kamla bhatt • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: Bollywood, Diaspora, Entertainment, Featured, India, Internet & Telecom, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
Director/Writer Shekhar Kapur talks about his passion: films.
He talks about his early years and how he made the transition to films. Did the fact that his uncles were well-known film personalities influence him? His uncles are Chetan Anand, Dev Anand and Vijay Anand.
Did you know that it took him 12 years to make [...]
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
