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Anupama Chopra on King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan Anupama Chopra talks about her new book King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan. Anupama is married to director and producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sivamani: The Percussionist Sivamani, the well-known percussionist talks about his passion: music. This interview was recorded in Manhattan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation with Ameen Sayani Part-5 In Part-5 of our conversation Mr.Sayani's continues with his special story about Kishore Kumar. He also talks about Sanjeev Kumar and other actors and the Hindi film interviews that he recorded during this period. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation with Dilip Saraf,Life and Career Coach Dilip Saraf is a Silicon Valley-based life and career coach. He talks about how to make a career change, and the importance of words and how we use them to describe our situation and the imporatant of effective communications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sivamani: The Percussionist Sivamani, the percussionist needs no introduction. Tune it to listent to him and the wonderful impromptu music he creates out of forks, spoons, knives, glasses and plate...and whatever else was there on the table. This interview was recorded at Amma in Manhattan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Akshay Mahajan's Rickshaw Run Aspirations Akshay Mahajan is teaming up with Neha Dara and Sheizia Jefri to partipate in the Rickshaw Run that will take them from Calcutta to Manali in Himachal Pradesh. Tune in to find out what Akshay has to say about his latest aspiration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cinematography VK Murthy on Workign With Guru Dutt Part-3 In Part-3 Mr. Murthy talks about his association with Guru Dutt and what it was to work with the legendary actor and director. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cinematography VK Murthy on Workign With Guru Dutt Part-3 New York-based Meera Gandi describes herself as a mother, wife, businesswoman and philanthropist. She and her investment banker husband Vikram Gandhi share a historical home with their children in New York. She is actively involved in the Presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cinematographer VK Murthy Part-4 In Part-2 Mr. Murthy talks about how he got into cinematography and his association with Guru Dutt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation with Ameen Sayani Part-4 In Part-4 of our conversation talks about his association with Hindi cinema and has a special story about Kishore Kumar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation with Ameen Sayani Part-3 In Part-3 Mr. Ameen Sayani talks about the early days of Hit Parade, the first count-down music show in India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation V.K. Murthy, Cinematographer for Guru Dutt's Films Part-I In Part-I of our conversation we talk with Mr. V.K. Murthy about his early days in Hindi films and how he developed his passion for cinema. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hemant Mathur and Surbhi Sahini of Devi, Manhattan The husband and wife team of Hemant Mathur and Surbhi Sahni talk about their passion for cooking and Devi Restaurant. New York’s Devi Restaurant became the first Indian restaurant to win a Michelin Star in the US. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women Entrepreneur: Leela Rao Women entrepreneurs in their 70s is not a common feature in India. Leela Rao of Bangalore is an exception. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation With Ameen Sayani Part-1I Legendary broadcaster Ameen Sayani talks about his early day.In Part-II Mr. Sayani talks how he started his career in radio. In this episode Mr. Sayani takes us back to the late 1940s and 1950s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anurag Dod and Gaurav Mishra of Guruji Anuraj Dod and Gaurav Mishra of Guruji, India's first search engine talk about their company and their strategy in India. Last year Guruji received $10 million for Sequoia Capital India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation With Ameen Sayani Part-1 Legendary broadcaster Ameen Sayani talks about his early days, his brother Hamid Sayani and Bournvita QUiz Contenst in this first part of our conversation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Author Srividya Natarajan of "No Onions Nor Garlic" Srividya Natarajan, author of "No Onions Nor Garlic" talks about her novel, the social issues underlying her novel, her next project and some of her favorite authors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women Bloggers: Mridula and Sakshi Anita Nair is Bangalore-based author. We caught up with her in her Bangalore home and talked about writing,what it takes to becomes a write and her books. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rang De Basanti's Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra Rang De Basanti's Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra is currently touring the USA in connection with the pre-Oscar buzz for the movie. Rang De Basanti is India's official entry for 2007 Oscars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website George Zacharias on Yahoo Goes Desi Yahoo! India goes desi by unveiling its regional portal and IM chat plugin. Now you can read Yahoo! India in any oone of seven Indian languages. George Zacharias, Managing Director of Yahoo! India talks about Yahoo going desi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pete Deemer of Yahoo!India Pete Deemer is the Chief Product Offier, Yahoo India Research and Development Center in Bangalore, India. Listen to what he has to say about product development, traveling and Bollywood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mobile Monday Bangalore Rang De Basanti's Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra is currently touring the USA in connection with the pre-Oscar buzz for the movie. Rang De Basanti is India's official entry for 2007 Oscars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation With Anita Nair Anita Nair is Bangalore-based author. We caught up with her in her Bangalore home and talked about writing,what it takes to becomes a write and her books. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rang De Basanti's Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra Rang De Basanti's Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra is currently touring the USA in connection with the pre-Oscar buzz for the movie. Rang De Basanti is India's official entry for 2007 Oscars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celebrating Thanksgiving We talk to Maryam Scoble, Anita and Minkashi Tikoo and Sandra Weber to find out how they celebrate Thanksgiving in their homes. What regional cooking influences have they brought to this traditional American celebration that consists of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prof. Rajagoplan On India-China War of 1962 Prof. Rajesh Rajagopalan talks about the events leading up to the India-China war of 1962. What were the perceptions, misperceptions that led to the war? What is the current status of the relationship between India and China? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Suvir 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Javed Akhtar Javed Akhtar talks about his new films Umrao Jaan, his writing and his father Jan Nissar Akhtar Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi are currently traveling in the US for their production of Kaifi Aur Main . We recorded this interview on November 4, 2006 at the IAAC film fesitval in Manhattan, New York.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MindTree Consulting's Ashok Soota MindTree Consulting's Ashok Soota talks about intellectual capital and human capital, and its importance for his company. This interview was recorded at the Asia Society in New York in October, 2006. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Namesake: Mira Nair and Kal Penn Mira Nair, Kal Penn talk about their new film The Namesake. This was the opening film for the sixth annual IAAC film festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UGenie's Harish Abbott UGenie's Harish Abbott talks about his new start-up, a comparison shopping search engine. UGenie is coming out its stealth mode and unveiling its beta version on November 1, 2006. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bharatmatrimony's CEO Murgavel Bharatmatrimony's CEO Murgavel Janakiraman heads India's largest match-making portal. Recently his company got its first round of investment from Canaan Ventures and Yahoo! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Jaffer: Made For Maharajas Dr. Amin Jaffer author of Made For Maharajas A Design Diary of Princely India talks about the rich and lavish lifestyle of the maharajas and maharanis of India from 1857 till 1947, when Indian became independent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast We bring different voices and perspective from around the world on how Divali is celebrated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aroon Shivdasani on IAAC Films Festival Aroon Shivdasani is the executive director and founding member of IndoAmerican Arts Council of New York. In this interview we talk to Aroon about IAAC's Film Festival (Nov 1-5, 2006) that is opening with Mira Nair's "The Namesake." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation With Madhur Jaffrey Actress and author Madhur Jaffrey recently published her autobiography. In this interview we talk about her book, growing up in Delhi and food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Filmmaker Govind Nihalani Part-V In Part-V of our conversation cinematographer, director and producer Govind Nihalani talks about his last couple of films, his futre plans and technology. How does technology shape the narrative in a film? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PlanetRead's Brij Kothari PlanetRead is a NGO that uses Same Language Subtitling (SLS) to improve reading skills of people. Recently PlanetRead became one of the first NGOs to be funded by Google philanthropy. Brij Kothari is the founder of PlanetRead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A First Class Man: Ramanujan In this interview we talk to the people involved in the production of A First Class Man, an off-Broadway play. The play revolves around Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan and Prof. Hardy, and examines the collaboration between these two gifted mathematicians. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prof. Freeman Dyson on Ramanujan In this interview Professor Freeman Dyson talks about Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan, the famous Indian mathematician. Prof. Dyson studied under Prof. GH Hardy in Cambridge University, and worked on Ramanujan's partition of numbers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kanwaljit Singh of Helion Ventures In this interview we speak to Kanwaljit Singh, Managing Director and Investment advisor at Helion. Kanwal joined the board of JiGrahak after the investment round. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vivek Wadhwa on Engineering Gap Vivek Wadhwa of Duke Univeristy talks about the engineering gap in the US. How many engineering students graduate every year from US, India and China? Is the US falling behind? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NEA's Kittu Kollur on Start-ups In oonversation with Kittu Kolluri, General Partner, NEA. Kittu talks about marketing, sales, customer service and scalability for start-ups Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation With Kittu Kolluri, General Partner, NEA In oonversation with Kittu Kolluri, General Partner, NEA. NEA is a leading US venture capital company. Kittu is co-leading the India investment strategy along with Vinod Dham and Vani Kola. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation With Gita Mehta In the concluding part of our conversation cinematographer, director and producer Govind Nihalani talks about Ardh Satya, Mr. VK Murthy, Mr. Shyam Benegal and the current state of Hindi films. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Filmmaker Govind Nihalani Part-VII In the concluding part of our conversation cinematographer, director and producer Govind Nihalani talks about Ardh Satya, Mr. VK Murthy, Mr. Shyam Benegal and the current state of Hindi films. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website K. Vaitheeswaran, CEO, Fabmall Part-II In Part-II of our conversation, K Vaitheeswaran, CEO, Fabmall talks about about the size of the online market, retailing trends, and segmentation of the Indian market. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website K. Vaitheeswaran, CEO, Fabmall K Vaitheeswaran, CEO, Fabmall talks about the setting up of India's first online retail company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jazz Musician Vijay Iyer Part-III In our final episode Vijay Iyer talks about his album Reimagining (2005) and his future plans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jazz Musician Vijay Iyer Part-II Vijay Iyer is a New York-based jazz musician and composer. In the second episode of our interview Viay talks about two of his albums: Blood Sutra and In What Language? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Read-Ink: Indian Start-up In India Read-Ink is founded by retired Stanford University Prof. Thomas Binford and Ione Binford in Bangalore. They are working on an online and offline handwriting recognition and OCR line of products. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Govind Nihalani Part-IV In Part-IV of our conversation cinematographer, director and producer Govind Nihalani talks about his teleseries Tamas and the films he made during the 1990s, especially Thakshak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Director and Singer AR Rehana We bring you an exclusive podcast interview with music director and singer AR Rehana, sister of AR Rahman, talks about her career, music and Hollywood Bowl. Rehana started her career in music by singing for her brother. But, gradually over the years she has transitioned from being a singer to a full-fledged music director for Tamil films. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alto Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa Part-III This is the concluding episode of our conversation with New York-based Jazz musician Rudresh Mahanthappa. In part III Rudresh discusses his collaborations with Vijay Iyer, Kadri Gopalnath and Indo-Pak music group. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smriti Mundhra about Google Video Smirti Mundhra is an upcoming producer and part of the film company Drops Entertainment. Smriti talks to Kamla Bhatt on the eve of Waterborne's debut on Google Video that was unveiled at the 2006 Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. Drops Entertainment's film Waterborne's became one of the first independent movies to debut on Google Video. Smriti discusses how and why they decided to distribute their new film on Google Video. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alto Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa Part-II Rudresh Mahanthappa is a New York-based jazz musician. In part II of interview Rudresh talks about what it was growing up in the US, and how he made his decision to become a musician. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blogs Inacessible in India Blogs hosted by blogspot, typepad and some websites have been inaccessible in India for the past couple of days. We talk to Amit Agarwal, Neha Viswanathan, Jace and Suresh Ramasubramanian to find more about how and why this happened. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr.Salman Akhtar on Bollywood and Indian Unconsciousness Part-V Dr.Salman Akhtar discusses the pros and cons of the term Bollywood. He also talks about his parents: Jan Nissar Akhtar and Safiya Akhtar. Dr. Akhtar is the brother of Javed Akhtar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website R. Sriram of Crossword on Retail Industry Part-II R. Sriram, CEO of Crossword Bookstore chain talks about how the retail industry in India. Retail is the next sunrise industry in India and will drive India's economic growth for the next 10 years says Sriram. In late June 2006 Sriram announced that he is quitting Crossword, and is starting a retail consulting company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Patel of NewMedia SPARK, VC Firm Part-II In Part-II of our podcast interview Jay Patel talks about IMImobile's business model and value proposition. In 2005 IMIMobile got its first round of funding (Series A) from NewMedia SPARK, an early stage investor in digital media and technology companies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Patel of NewMedia SPARK, VC Firm Jay Patel is an executive director at IMImobile, a wireless value added services company in Hyderabad, India. He is also a director at NewMedia SPARK, a London-based VC firm. What do VCs look for when they evaluate and do a the due dilengence of start-ups? As part of the NewMedia Spark team Jay is constantly on the look-out for good start-ups to evaluate and fund. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rudresh Mahanthappa: Do You Speak Indian? Part-I Dr. Salman Akhtar talks about the new genre of films that he calls "nostalgic defense," his nephew Farhan Akhtar and the surprising connection to the 2006 Oscars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr.Salman Akhtar on Bollywood and Indian Unconsciousness Part-IV Dr. Salman Akhtar talks about the new genre of films that he calls "nostalgic defense," his nephew Farhan Akhtar and the surprising connection to the 2006 Oscars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jag Minhas on Mobile Hub and Digital Lifestyle Part-I Jag Minhas is an engineer and a blogger based in London. In Part III Jag talks about the concept of mobile hub, digital lifestyle and killer environments for mobile phones. Jag is Chief Architect, Data Products at O2, UK's largest mobile company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website R. Sriram of Crossword Bookstore Ltd Part-I R. Sriram, CEO of Crossword Bookstore chain talks about how he started his career and the retail industry in India. In late June 2006 Sriram announced that he is quitting Crossword, but will remain with the company until August 2006. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr.Salman Akhtar on Bollywood and Indian Unconsciousness Part-III Dr. Salman Akhtar talks about Bollywood and the Indian unconsciousness. In Part-III he talks about the female sexuality in Hindi films, and the emergence of the angry young phase of Hindi films. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mahesh Jain of Jataayu Software Mahesh Jain is the Managing Director of Jataayu Software, Bangalore, India. In this podcast interview, the focus of the discussion is the WAP market in India and world-wide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Govind Nihalani on Parallel Cinema and Bollywood Part-III In Part-III of our conversation Mr.Govind Nihalani talks about parallel cinema and the term Bollywood. He would much rather use the term Hindi Cinema than use the term Bollywood. Mr. Nihalani was deeply involved with the parallel cinema movement in India during the 1970s and 1980s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rene Seifert: Doing Business in India How do you do start-ups and run a business in India? Rene Seifert, Bangalore-based entrepreneur and Managing Director of Level 360 Services discusses how to start and what it takes to do business in India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baldev Duggal: Image Maker Par Excellence Part-I Baldev Duggal is a legend in the world of photography. Mr. Duggal is the founder and President of Duggal Visual Communciation based headquartered in Manhattan, New York. In Part-I of our conversation Mr. Duggal talks about how he started his business and his technical innovation that revolutionized the world of photography Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation With Govind Nihalani Part-II Jag Minhas is an engineer and a blogger based in London. He started his blog Route 79 in 2002. When he is not blogging Jag is O2's chief i-mode architect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation With Govind Nihalani Part-II In Part-II of our conversation cinematographer, director and producer Govind Nihalani talks about how he got his first break in films in Bombay. He got his breeak from Mr. V.K. Murthy , cinematographer for Mr. Guru Dutt's films. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Salman Akhtar on Bollywooed and Indian Unconsciousness Part-I Dr. Salman Akhtar talks about Bollywood and the Indian unconsciousness. What are the unconsciousness undercurrents of Indian society and culture that are reflected in Hindi cinema? Dr. Akhtar is the son of Jaan Nissar Akhtar and brother of Javed Akhtar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation With Adam Greenfield In conversation with Adam Greenfield author of a new and fascinating book called, "Everyware." Adam says everyware is "information processing embedded in the objects and surfaces of everyday life." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Arun Kathiyar, CEO of SEraja Arun Katiyar is CEO of SEraja,a Web 2.0 company. This is how Esther Dyson described SEraja in her newsletter "The idea is to index and display content by time and place ... process the content it finds..." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Govind NihalaniCinematographer, Director, Producer: Part-I In Part-I of our conversation Hindi film cinematographer, director and producer Govind Nihalani talks about his association with Mr. Syham Benegal, Mr. Satyadev Dubej and Mr. V.K. Murthy. He also describes how he made a choice to join the film industry and his first film with ace-cinematographer Mr. V.K. Murthy, who worked in all of Guru Dutt's movies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nitin Desai on VC Funding in India Whatis the Venture Capital scene in India like? Nitin Desai talks about the Indian government's initiative on Venture Capital in India. Mr. Desai is the chairperson of a committee on Technology, Innovation and Venture Capital instituted by the Government of India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mahesh Murthy of Seed Fund, Early Stage VC Company Mahesh Murthy of Seed Fund, an early stage VC company in Mumbai talks about VC funding trends and investment opportunities in India. Seed Fund recently closed a round of $10 million for investment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Story of Indu Devi Sharma: Traditional Masseuses and Businesswoman (Hindi) This podcast interview is in Hindi. This is the story of a gritty, determined and enterprising Indu Devi Sharma, who has achieved economic independence for herself and her family. She relocated to Mumbai from her ancestral village in Uttar Pradesh 25 years ago. About three years ago Indu started using a cell-phone and has increased the earning potential for herself and her family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation with Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa Raw Materials by Savoy Jazz is a new jazz album by Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa. This is the first podcast interview by Vijay and Rudresh where you can listen to them talk about Savoy Jazz and how they started working together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vaasanthi on Tamil Nadu Politics Part-I Vaasanthi is a writer and former editor of India Today, Tamil edition. Her new book on Tamil Nadu politics titled, Cut-outs, Caste and Cine Stars was published recently. In Part-I of our conversation Vaasanthi talks about the recent elections in Tamil Nadu. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vishal Gondal, Founder/Director of India Games Part-II Vishal Gondal is Founder and Director of India Games, India's first mobile gaming company. In Part II of our conversation Vishal talks about the gaming industry, the size of the market and the synergy between TOM and India Games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vishal Gondal, Founder/Director of India Games Part-I In Part I of our conversation Vishal talks about the early days of his company, the burn rate for running a start-up in India and the strategic acquisition by TOM, Macromedia and Cisco. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rafat Ali of paidContent.org Rafat Ali started blogging three years ago, and his blogs have turned into news destination for digital and mobile content. Today, Rafat runs a successful media start-up from Los Angeles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Power Blogger Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration is a power blogger. A computer engineer from IIT, Roorkee, Amit left his job at ADP two years ago, and turned into a professional blogger. He earns more money from his blogging than he did as an engineer. Besides blogging, Amit also provides web consulting services and writes for publications and a TV channel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cab Driver Baldev Sharma On Cell Phones, Internet and the New India Baldev Sharma,72, is a cab driver in New Delhi. He migrated to India during the 1947 partition and studied in Urdu till his fourth grade after which he discontinued studying. Since 1954 he has been driving a cab in New Delhi, India's capital. He learnt to speak English driving tourists around the city. Listen to him talk about cell phones, PC and Internet and the new India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roy Moxham on Malabar Dreams London-based author Roy Moxham is currently in the middle of writing his third book titled, Malabar Dreams. I met with Mr. Moxham in London in May when he took some time off to talk about his new book, his travels in India and the interesting discoveries he made in the process of collecting material for his new book. He spent an extended period of time traveling up and down the coast of Western India: Kerala, Konkan, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat. The book is to be published in 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Atul Chitnis: Indian Telecom Boom Part-I We continue our series on the Indian Telecom boom. In Part-I of our conversation with Atul Chitnis, who describes himself as a disruptive technologist, we talk about the mobile cell phone revolution. We continue with our quest to find out if mobile phones will be the main access device to the Internet in India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation with Micky Pant Micky (Muktesh) Pant is the Chief Marketing Officer at Yum! Brands Inc. In this interview he talks about marketing, Reebok's Terry Tate advertisement for Super Bowl 2003, and his mother Shivani, a noted Hindi writer, who passed away in March 2003. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Venky Harinarayan of Kosmix Internet search is heating up, and there is a new technology company that wants to change the current search landscape. Listen to Venky Harinarayan, an engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist talk about his new search company Kosmix based in Mountain View, CA. Last month the company came out of its stealth mode and unveiled its new search engine product at Demo, an emerging technology conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Azim Premji of Wipro From New York Stock Exchange An interview with Mr. Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro Ltd, from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Wall Street. This was the fourth time that Mr. Premji rang the closing bell at the NYSE. "And, all four times we took the market up," commented Mr. Premji with a smile. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ira 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 (English) as a homage to her mother. Through the book Ira tries to discover her enigmatic mother, known as "diddi," or elder sister. In this book we see a public portrait of Shivani emerge through the eyes of her daughter, Ira. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Sanjay Sanghoee New York-based author and investment banker Sanjay Sanghoee released his first book Merger last year. The financial suspense thriller is set in New York and combines all of Sanjay's interests: investment banking, media conglomerates and Capitol Hill. In this interview we talk to Sanjay about his book, white collar crime, Wall Street and his upcoming writing projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beth Loves Bollywood Listen to Beth Watkins talk with Kamla Bhatt about her fascination with Bollywood. Beth Watkins is a self-confessed Bollywood addict, and is part of a growing tribe of Bollywood fans in North America. Her interest in Bollywood underscores a growing trend that Bollywood films appeal to a wide audience who are not necessarily from Asia or Africa, the traditional domain of Hindi films. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jael Silliman: Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames Jael Silliman of Jewish Portraits:Indian Frames talks about the Baghdadi Jewish community of Calcutta. Once a thriving community in Calcutta, the Arab-speaking Jewish community has dwindled to a handful of people points out Jael. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flower Silliman: Baghdadi Jew of India Flower Silliman, mother of Jael Silliman, is a third generation Baghdadi Jew, who was born and brought up in Calcutta, India. During World War II, Flower's family sent her to study in a Christian school in Nagpur. Flower talks about her experiences of growing up in pre-Independent India, and away from the confines of her tight-knit Baghdadi Jewish community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remembering Mahatma Gandhi Flower Silliman shares her memories of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi). On January 30, 1948, Gandhiji was shot dead. He was on his way to his evening prayer meeting at Birla House in New Delhi. He was 78 years old. Flower was a student at Lady Irwin College, New Delhi, during the mid-1940s. She was part of the choir that sang during Gandhiji's prayer meetings at Birla Mandir. Gandhiji's favorite hymn was "Lead Kindly Night." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sridhar Pai: Indian Telecom Boom Part-I We bring you a two-part series on the Indian Telecom boom with Sridhar Tonse Pai. Sridhar is the founder/CEO, Tonse Telecom, a research analysis and consulting company based in Bangalore. In Part-I of our conversation Sridhar gives a snap-shot of the Indian telecom industry. He paints a broad picture of the trends andthe growth of this great Indian telecom boom. He also clarifies the terms and definitions used in describing the Indian telecom boom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation with Rachel Rawlins of Global Voices Rachel Rawlins is the Managing Editor of Global Voices Online, a non-profit global citizens media project, sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. Before joining Global Voices, Rachel spent 15 years working for the BBC. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Conversation with Shyam Benegal Part VI In our final segment Mr. Shyam Benegal talks about his cousin Guru Dutt and film-maker Satyajit Raj, and how they influenced and inspired him. He also talks about the changing India and how that is influencing his story-telling. 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