Sharmila Tagore in 1966 Murphy Radio Ad
The language was Bangla, but the accent and the stories, distinguishably Chinese. An avid radio listener, my father tried to inculcate this dying habit into his sons. FM is not…Continue Reading →
The language was Bangla, but the accent and the stories, distinguishably Chinese. An avid radio listener, my father tried to inculcate this dying habit into his sons. FM is not…Continue Reading →
Old Monk, as all Old Monk bacchantes will agree, is not just a rum, it’s an institution. You don’t drink…
Quite a long while ago when I had initiated (and now reviving) the Fantastic Females series on this blog, the…
Meghna Girohtra, from Bombay, has collected 243 vintage Indian print advertisements (on the last count) on Flickr. A collection which she intends to keep growing and wants to create an…Continue Reading →
Adjective: sexy (sexier, sexiest) seksee1. Marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire of interest“feeling sexy”; “sexy clothes”; “sexy poses”;…
All the four banks featured in this post were nationalised approximately four years after the publication of these ads. There…
On June 24 ended the inaugural season of Vintage Indian Advertisements on Cutting the Chai, featuring 61 print ads in a dozen instalments. Today begins Season Two. The last season…Continue Reading →
In New Delhi’s Nirman Bhavan there is a clock, but it doesn’t tell the time. It calculates the cumulative fruits…