In Conversation with Neha Viswanathan
London-based Neha Viswanathan blogs, and reads hundreds of blogs a day. Her foray into the blogging world began with maintaining a diary and before long she had branched off into collaborative...
View ArticleIra Pande Remembers Shivani
Ira Pande talks about her mother, the well-known Hindi writer Shivani (Gaura Pant). Last year, Ira wrote a book called Diddi as a homage to her mother. Through the book Ira tries to discover her...
View ArticleCab Driver Baldev Sharma on Cell Phones, Internet and the New India
Baldev Raj Sharma is one of the countless faces of the new India, where every month 4.5 million new cell phone users are added, and where Internet connectivity is becoming a reality for many people. I...
View ArticleNitin Desai on VC Funding in India
Nitin Desai talks about the Indian government’s initiative on how to create an eco-system for innovation and venture capital. Mr. Desai is the chairperson of a committee on Technology, Innovation and...
View ArticleIn Conversation with Gita Mehta
Gita Mehta has a new book called Eternal Ganesha. The book will be available in bookstores in the USA from October 1, 2006. Eternal Ganesha is an illustrated coffee table book that provides an updated...
View ArticleAlok Mittal of Canaan Partners India
Alok Mittal is the executive director at Canaan Partners India office. Canaan along with Yahoo recently invested about $8.6 million in Bharat Matrimony, an Indian match-making site. Alok is also a...
View ArticleDivali Around The World
We bring you different voices and perspectives from around the world on how Divali is celebrated. We speak to Roshni Patel in New Jersey; MumbaiGirl in London; Anjana Mohan in St. Louis and Surbi...
View ArticleSuvir Saran of New York’s Devi
Devi of New York recently became the first Indian restaurant in the USA to win a Michelin star. Suvir Saran, the co-executive chef of Devi talks about his passion for food, Devi and Delhi. In this...
View ArticleCelebrating Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a traditional US holiday that is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. We went on a culinary journey around the US and India to find out how people celebrate Thanksgiving in...
View ArticleWomen Bloggers: Mridula And Sakshi
There are few women bloggers in India. We caught up with two women bloggers in New Delhi: Mridula Dwivedi and Sakishi Juneja. Mridula Dwivedi has carved a niche for herself as a travel blogger. She...
View ArticleKiran Karnik on BPO Industry in India – Part-3
In this episode Kiran Karnik talks about the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector, and the emergence of India as a knowledge hub. Currently the BPO industry employs about 600,000 people in India...
View ArticleRafat Ali of paidContent.org
Rafat Ali started blogging three years ago as a way to land a job. Instead of looking for a job, he ended up running a new media start-up. The blog has grown from a one-person operation to a new media...
View ArticleArjun Malhotra: Birth of HCL Technologies
Arjun Malhotra is the chairman and CEO of Headstrong, a US-based IT services company. In the 1970s Arjun along with 5 others co-founded HCL Technologies, which was probably the first Indian IT product...
View ArticleCab Driver Baldev Sharma on Cell Phones, Internet and the New India
Baldev Raj Sharma is one of the countless faces of the new India, where every month 4.5 million new cell phone users are added, and where Internet connectivity is becoming a reality for many people. I...
View ArticleSocial Media in India. What is Missing?
What is the social media landscape in India like? India has millions of users on Orkut, Facebook and other social media sites, but is there a disconnect between the users and corporations, marketing...
View ArticleProf. Rajagopalan: India-China War 1962
Prof. Rajesh Rajagopalan talks about the events leading up to the India-China war of 1962. What were the perceptions and misperceptions that led to the war? What is the current status of the...
View ArticleMadhur Jaffrey On Taste Memories of Delhi
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...
View ArticleDr. Amin Jaffer On The Splendors of Indian Maharajas
The splendors of an Indian maharaja’s (king) court is the stuff of legend that you may have heard or read in books. In Made For Maharajas A Design Diary of Princely India (Vendome Press, 2006) Dr. Amin...
View ArticleIn Conversation With Ira Pande Part-1
Shivani and Manohar Shyam Joshi are two well-known Hindi writers, whose work until a few years ago was confined to Hindi readers. However in the last few years Shivani and Joshi’s books were translated...
View ArticleIra Pande on Jaipur Literary Festival & Indian Publishing Industry
The publishing landscape in India has changed quite a bit in the last few years and Indian and South Asian writers are on the radar of international publishing houses. What does the Indian publishing...
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