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Flipkart fake MRP
Grumbles Soumyadip ChoudhuryOctober 18, 2015 0

Caught again! Flipkart offers fake discount during Big Billion Days sale

Update (December 23, 2015): Instead of fixing the error, Flipkart is taking this to a whole new level. The same book is now being sold at a price of Rs…Continue Reading →

Maggi fan after Maggi ban emoji
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New emoji: Maggi fan after Maggi ban

After tests find lead and MSG in samples of Maggi, many state governments have placed temporary bans on the sale…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0June 4, 2015
According to eBay India, Blue Dart has a time machine
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According to eBay, Blue Dart can go back in time to deliver packages

Like many of you, I haven’t had the best of experiences with courier services and the situation is now such…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0January 16, 2014
Gillette Guard
Grumbles Soumyadip ChoudhuryOctober 7, 2013 3

Is the Gillette Guard as revolutionary a razor as the AP story makes it appear to be?

I love innovation and inexpensive innovations more so. So this headline ‘Cheap razor made after P&G watches Indians shave‘ obviously got me clicking and half way through the story it…Continue Reading →

Download for free: 39 HarperCollins India ebooks on Google Play
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Download for free: 40 HarperCollins India ebooks on Google Play

Disclosure: I am an ebook evangelist. Update 2: As expected, Google and HarperCollins India seems to have been alerted of…

Soumyadip Choudhury 35August 5, 2013
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IIPM website contradicts Arindam Chaudhuri

Arindam Chaudhuri asserts, “we have nothing to do with the UGC/AICTE and students interested in statutory recognition need not apply…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0February 17, 2013
Bizarre Soumyadip ChoudhuryDecember 11, 2012 0

When Apple said ‘Maps take a whole new turn’, they meant it

Apple’s marketing tagline for their much-derided iOS 6 maps apps, says, “Maps take a whole new turn.” Many travellers in Australia would agree, but not with pleasure. After all that…Continue Reading →

Cannot dial emergency number 100 on Idea Cellular prepaid
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Can’t dial emergency number from prepaid. What an @#!%& Idea sirji!

Idea Cellular tom-toms it’s ‘ideas’ through multi-crore advertising campaigns. If only the agency that devised those ideas had also added…

Soumyadip Choudhury 2June 11, 2012
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From anti-smoker to smoker to non-smoker: My King Size journey

@anirbanchow, a good old friend, still remembers the kick that landed on his butt as a result of his adamant…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0May 31, 2012
Shoddy Seventymm.com service. Six months and still no delivery.
Internet Soumyadip ChoudhuryMarch 29, 2012 0

Why I won’t ever buy from Seventymm.com (and neither should you)

This is not a rant, but an expression of consumer dissatisfaction. A part of an effort to prevent other unsuspecting customers from being cheated by unscrupulous e-commerce websites. It has…Continue Reading →

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To promote Chrome, is Google playing cheap?

Google’s Chrome is right on track to unseat Microsoft’s Internet Explorer from the web browser throne and the folks from…

Soumyadip Choudhury 2February 21, 2012
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Opening a third front in the Times of India vs Hindu ad battle

As The Times of India versus The Hindu advertising battle rages on, Cutting the Chai thought it was about time…

Soumyadip Choudhury 2January 28, 2012

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