Free! Vital books on sex and health (only to the married)
Ad from 1954: If you are unmarried, you have the pay for sex education (or pretend to be married to get it for free).Continue Reading →
At Rs 100/issue buy e-versions of Filmfare magazine from 60 years ago
Update: Filmfare seems to have removed its magazines from sale on Magzter. As regular readers of this blog (if there…
How emoji is making it easier for the illiterate to use mobile phones
For the poor in India it is the mobile phone that has proved to be a bigger revolution than the…
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 →
Announcing India Shopping Search: A custom search engine for online shopaholics
I do a lot of my shopping online and always have an eye open to catch the best diaper deals…
India inflation adjustment calculator (1939-2013) at 2013 prices
A simple online Excel sheet to calculate the value of any amount of rupees from any year from 1939 to…
Google’s website on civil rights movement practises discrimination
You just cannot miss the irony trying to access Google’s website on the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr’s historic “I have a dream” speech on a web…Continue Reading →
Ad from 1982: Pan Parag with Jalal Agha and Kalpana Iyer (and why I can’t ever forget Jalal’s name)
It has happened to the best of quizzards and I was far from being anywhere close to the best. The…
Narendra Modi (and others) got it wrong. Rupee wasn’t equal to the dollar in 1947
This ‘fact’ like so many others had been flooding my timeline for long and when the wannabe-PM Narendra Modi also…
Trespassers will be shot. And…
A sign for the times.Continue Reading →
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…
Kishore Kumar: Childhood and first wedding photos
Who is the greatest playback singer of Hindi cinema? The debate was raging from much before I was born (and…
