Kamla Bhatt
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Kamla Bhatt is India's premier blogger and India's first podcaster. She is also a freelance writer and researcher. Kamla is a featured podcaster contributor to the IndiaTech feature on Silicon Valley's PodTech.Net.
Her popular radio / podcast show is called Kamla Bhatt Show.
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[edit] Podcast: Kamla Bhatt Show
Kamla's podcasts are about All Things Indian that have a complete global appeal. Her podcast subjects have been who's who of the Indian diaspora from all over the globe. As Deccan Herald, Bangalore's leading newspaper aptly put it "She has always been fascinated by people from all walks of life — be they IT czars or celebrity chefs or Bollywood stars and directors, or a driver."
Kamla Bhatt Show has featured interviews with Venture Capitalists NEA's Kittu Kolluri, SeedFund's Mahesh Murthy and Helion Venture's Kanwaljit Singh. She interviewed Wipro's Azim Premji which was a coup of sorts, at the New York Stock Exchange. Her podcasts also feature conversations with Fabmall's CEO K. Vaitheeswaran, internet stalwart Venky Harinarayan to the latest whizkids ramping up on India's startup scene.
On the entertainment side, she has covered elite Indian movie directors Mira Nair, Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani and other notables such as Bollywood's activist and intellectual actress Shabana Azmi, New York based Jazz musicians Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa, theatre actress cum celebrity chef Madhur Jaffrey, writer Gita Mehta and upcoming music director A R Rehana (sister of A R Rahman), to only name a few.
[edit] Personal life
Kamla grew up in Chennai and studied BA at Women’s Christian College, Chennai. She did an MA in International Relations from Marquette University, Milwaukee and an M.Phil in International Politics and Economy from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
She worked in Silicon Valley for over a decade in sales at various IT companies. Her last stint was working in a networking start-up, where she had to learn about the OSI model, TCP/IP stack, VPN, and how layers 4-7 function. While holding down a day job, she regularly contributed to various Indian publications in the US and in India. Her writing has been published by Rediff, India Abroad, Outlook, Silicon India, Business Standard and The Telegraph.
Kamla is also an avid blogger, and writes regularly on her blog. She also contributes to Global Voices and Desicritics.
The Web 2.0 phenomenon jump started her dream of doing a radio show. While on an work assignment at India, Kamla started India's first two podcasts from Bombay/Mumbai in 2005: News About India and Talk News India.
Kamla’s inspiration and constant support has been her husband Deepak Srinivasan an alumni of IIT, Kanpur and a marketing guru. They share a lot in common — airplanes (he is an aeronautical engineer and she has done her M.Phil thesis on the IAF), love for travel and international politics.
She currently divides her time between New York, USA and Bangalore, India.
[edit] References
- Show and Tell on The Internet published in Bangalore's Deccan Herald July 28, 2006
- The Next Big Thing published in Calcutta's The Telegraph, July 17, 2006
- Technology Challenge for Western Media published in Ohmy News,May 11, 2006
- Radio Jockey published in Mumbai's Daily News and Analysis May 14, 2006
- Radio You published in Mousetrap India Times Blog published March 19, 2006
