Happy Holi!
Holi is a festival of fun and frolic (and double entendre?)
Photos
Vintage photographs of Shillong from 1948 (also Vallabhbhai Patel calling people of Assam lazy)
64 years later, Shillong is virtually unrecognisable. I could only recognise the Governor House on Bivar Road, then known as Government House, the characteristic Ward’s Lake and the Assembly House (destroyed in a fire on January 9, 2001). These photographs from Government of India’s Photo Division were taken when Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was on a [...]
From toddler to The Wall: A photographic tribute to Rahul Dravid
You may have seen the photos below elsewhere on the Internet, but it was on Cutting the Chai were they first appeared online, back in November 2006 and then went viral. If only I had watermarked them, would’ve got so much of free publicity As one of my favourite cricketers ever plays his last ever [...]
Need directions? Pay up
Perhaps bugged by incessant queries from lost people a roadside tyre puncture repair shop near the L Block Market, Sector 11, Noida has put up a board that says, “रास्ता पूछने का 5 रु” (Rs 5 for directions). I doubt if the board has added to his earnings, but it surely does save him the [...]
Please keep your showe’s hear
We find these misspellings all over the country and beyond. This from outside a temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. Also the apostrophe s is in superscript (as if in a later attempt at correction). Photographed on 28 January 2011.
10 minutes to 10
At Surajkund Fair, Faridabad, Haryana on February 4, 2011. It was sometime in the afternoon, the clock wasn’t showing the correct time.
Boom (2003): A treasure trove of celebrity childhood photos
कीचड़ में ही कमल खिलते हैं (Kichad mein hi kamal khilte hain) Out of the mud, the lovely lotus blooms Not too many would’ve seen Kaizad Gustad’s 2003 debacle, Boom, apart from the Katrina Kaif scene with Gulshan Grover (the saucier kissing scene with Gulshan Grover was edited out). For Katrina, Boom was her Bollywood [...]