AR Rahman’s music in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire has become a runaway hit. The films has won 10 Oscar nominations out of which 3 are for AR Rahman’s music. AR went to to win 2 Oscars and became the first music composer from the Indian film industry to win 2 Oscars.
In early February 2009 right [...]
Posts Tagged ‘India’
By kamla bhatt • Mar 6th, 2010 • Category: Bollywood, Chennai, Entertainment, Featured, India, Los Angeles, Mumbai, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
By kamla bhatt • Jan 16th, 2010 • Category: Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
In Part-2 of the interview Nandan Nilekani talks the changing dynamics of Indian political landscape, especially in the federal-state relationship. What can India learn from China? What is needed for India to move forward? What is missing? These were some of the questions he answered.
In case you missed, you can listen to Part-1 of the conversation, [...]
By kamla bhatt • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
Nandan Nilekani is the co-founder and former head of Infosys, one of India’ s best success stories. Infosys is an Indian IT powerhouse that was founded during India’s famous “License Raj,” phase, which was known for its regulatory hurdles. Thomas Friedman in his book credits Nandan for coining that famous phrase, which became the title of [...]
By kamla bhatt • Nov 25th, 2009 • Category: Books and Authors, Diaspora, Featured, India, Mumbai, New York, People
American filmmaker and writer Sadia Shepard grew up thinking that her Pakistani maternal grandmother was a Muslim just like her mother. And therein lies an interesting story, whose roots can be traced to the
partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 and the tragic consequences it had for so many families and people [...]
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. 
