Posts Tagged ‘India’

By kamla bhatt • Jun 10th, 2010 • Category: Bangalore, Featured, India, People

This week Samim or “Sam Rizvi” became the first Indian to participate in the grueling bicycle event Race Across America. The race is flagged off in Oceanside in Southern California and ends in Maryland on the east coast.



By kamla bhatt • Mar 6th, 2010 • Category: Bollywood, Chennai, Entertainment, Featured, India, Los Angeles, Mumbai, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

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 [...]



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  [...]