2025, AI, and me
A lot has happened this year - for the world and for me. The story of how I navigated the world of AI this year.Continue Reading →
My school leaving certificate spells my name as Soumyadip Choudhury (সৌম্যদীপ চৌধুরী), some call me The Chaiwallah. I work and live in what is generally referred to as Delhi NCR (work in Noida, stay in Ghaziabad).A part of my work profile labels me as a journalist (of the Internet kind) and my areas of specialisation includes technology. The Internet is the primary area of personal and professional interest and I also build products for the Web. I am currently with Network18 as Technology Editor and Product Manager at IBNLive.com. In over nine years of employment, I have worked with HT Media, Career Launcher, The Times Group, NDTV and Network18 in various capacities. As a chronicler of popular culture via advertising, movies, photos and more, I maintain a popular blog, Cutting the Chai, since 2005. The blog also doubles up as a digital archive of India's popular culture.Have been hard-wired to everything tech since childhood, I have a penchant for making and repairing (and occasionally breaking) things. My wife and family suspect that I am secretly married to my laptop.Was born and brought up in Shillong and that is the place I still call home (in the physical world).
A lot has happened this year - for the world and for me. The story of how I navigated the world of AI this year.Continue Reading →

This website is my memory project

Long story short, there's still no perfect solution. But this one worked for me.
Devika Rani appeared in a Palmolive soap advertisement, much before Leela Chitnis' famous ad for Lux in 1941.Continue Reading →

The trigger for the 1938 riots in Shillong was political in nature but appears to have quickly taken a communal…

This isn't exactly a review (I have long ceased being an active technology journalist), but more of a public note…
This photograph captures in a snapshot what the pandemic, the lockdown and work from home meant for me.Continue Reading →

Watching a new generation of Bollywood kids making their debut in this Netflix film, I couldn't help but think of…

The entire year compressed into a single printable A4 page with a clear view of the official Government of India…
TLDR; 1. Better active noise cancellation. 2. Volume control. 3. In-ear detection.Continue Reading →
The forms, formats and norms of social media are stifling. This place, is a breath of fresh air. My own…

September 8, 2001. It was on this day, 20 years ago, I disembarked in Bhopal from a train on a…