Kamla Bhatt Show

How do you know you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? How or when do you recognize that you want to become an entrepreneur? What about the role family and spouse in an entrepreneur s... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

What is web 2.0? How do you harness the intelligence of users? What does the network is the platform, really mean? And why are rules on the network different? Why is it better to... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Anita Nair is the author of Malabar Mind, Ladies Coupe, Mistress and other books. Her book Ladies Coupe is described as what must be one of the most important feminist novels to come out of... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

How do you serve the next billion is the the central focus of conversation in many telecom companies. How do you address the bottom of the pyramid in emerging and developing economise? I caught up... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Murli Wanchoo looks back at India from a distance since he now lives in California. He worked for the Indian government for over 40 years. What were the early years like after India got its freedom... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

CK-12 s co-founder Murugan Pal talks about entrepreneurship, Web 3.0, semantic search, and how he discovered computer engineering in Part-2 of our conversation. Murugan was an Entrepreneur In... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

The online world is undergoing a huge change with video and audio downloads growing at a fast clip. Video is the biggest growth area in the online world. So, it is any surprise that online video ads... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

CK-12 is a Silicon Valley non-profit organization co-founded by Murugan Pal and Neeru Khosla. Take Wikipedia, iTunes, Netflix, MySpace and club it all together and target it to textbook manufacturing... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Lin Chase of Accenture spent 2 years in India as the first head of Accenture s R D lab. In Part-2 of the interview Lin discusses and shares her experience of working in India. Her advice... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Melek Pulotkonak is COO of Hakia, a 4-year old semantic search startup based in New York city. I caught up with Melek at the BlogHer conference in San Francisco to find out about Hakia, semantic... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Abhishek Bachchan needs no introduction to Bollywood fans. But, if you have not heard of Abhishek here is a quick summary. His family is often described as the first family of Bollywood. He is the... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Dr. Lin. L. Chase served as the first director of Accenture s India Research and Development Center and spent two years hiring, building and shaping the lab. This is Accenture s 4th... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Roma Kapoor joined United Way, a well-known philanthropic organization in 1999. United Way was founded in Denver, Colorado in 1887. As she puts it she learnt how United Way works in local communities... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Naomi Duguid is a lawyer turned cook/writer. Along with her husband Jeffrey Alford she has written 6 wonderful cook books and they won the James Beard award for two of their books. Their latest book... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Whom to venture capitalists and investors turn to when they want to find out about a new and emerging technology or need help evaluating a new business plan? Meet Prabakar Sundarrajan, who helps VC... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

What does it take to create an ecosystem for entrepreneurs in India? How is innovation and entrepreneurship being fostered in India? How do you create a robust ecosystem for the IT sector that just... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Entrepreneurship, innovation, startups and Microsoft is what makes Paul Murphy tick. Paul is Director of Innovation at Microsoft and his company has pretty ambitious goals about fostering and... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Can Jet Airways become one of the top 5 global airlines under the stewardship of Naresh Goyal? Yes it can,  and it has the right person with the right vision and attitude to make it happen says N.... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Singapore Airlines inspired by Air India? Well, it seems that was just the case in the world of aviation not so long ago. Until the 1960s Air India (AI) under JRD Tata was one of the top-notch ... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Consider this: there are about 3.2 million broadband users in India out of a population of over 1 billion. Clearly there is a huge latent demand for broadband services in India. The question is... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Neeru Khosla has firmly remained under the radar for many years and has instead focused her attention on her family, children and their education. For many years Neeru was involved in volunteering... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

What does it feel to be pregnant with a startup idea for 30 years? Meet Dr. Rajeeva Lahri, co-founder and CEO of Signet Solar, Menlo-Park based cleantech company. Rajeeva waited 30 years before he... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Ravi Viswanathan is a partner in New Enterprise Associates (NEA), a prominent venture capital firm headquartered on the East Coast with a strong presence in Silicon Valley. NEA has committed... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Vivek Paul is partner at TPG, a private equity company that is ranked as one of top PE firms in the world. According to Hoover TPG holdings include stakes in Notable Neiman Marcus (high end... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Pico Iyer is a well-known writer and essayist, who has written 9 books and numerous articles and essays in various magazines and publications. Pico wrote his first book Video Night in Kathmandu about... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Pico Iyer is a well-known an author and essayist, whose new book about the 14th Dalai Lama The Open Road: The Global Journey of the 14th Dalai Lama has received excellent reviews. In The Open... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Naresh Gupta is Managing Director of Adobe India. Naresh occupies a pretty interesting space at Adobe. At one level Naresh is in charge of Adobe’s print and publishing portfolio, which is how Adobe... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Spy Princess: Noor Inayat Khan is a biography written by London-based Shrabani Basu. I caught up with Shrabani while she was on her US book tour to find out more about this intriguing, historical... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Higher food prices, global shortage of food, rationing of rice in the USA. The global food crisis dubbed as the silent tsunami has dominated headlines since the start of the year. What is driving... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.

Never assume that high risk means high pay-offs. Meet Dr. Pradeep Khosla, Dean of College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), a premier research university located in... Life, People and Ideas: Connecting Indian diaspora across the world.