Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s 139-second long Bollywood debut in Sarfarosh (1999)
Mereko kuch nahi pata, mein to kal hi mulk se aaya. Bol na be ~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s first lines in Hindi cinema Even a glimpse is enough to know a…Continue Reading →
Indian family planning posters from the 1950s
A joke on India’s most famous family planning slogan: हम दो, हमारे दो, जब तक तीसरा न हो/Hum do, hamare…
VK Krishna Menon’s ‘Nehru’s vision, Menon’s mission’ election poster from 1967
VK Krishna Menon was denied a Congress ticket in the 1967 Lok Sabha elections from the Bombay North East constituency.…
Parliament hungama and Meira Kumar ‘baith jaiye’ mobile phone ringtone
While the Harlem Shake (The Meira Kumar ‘baith jaiye’ edition) video appears to be gradually assuming viral proportions, here’s an MP3 ringtone version of what regularly happens in our Parliament.…Continue Reading →
Harlem Shake (The Meira Kumar ‘baith jaiye’ edition)
Adding a Lok Sabha flavour to the viral Harlem Shake meme. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar’s ‘baith jaiye’ pleads to…
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…
IIPM versus us: The story so far (as recorded by Cutting the Chai)
As IIPM makes headlines yet again for the wrong reasons, I skimmed through Cutting the Chai archives and my tweets to realise that there have been a lot since the…Continue Reading →
With due apologies: Naseeruddin Shah in a swimsuit
Naseeruddin Shah fans, please allow me the privilege of ruining your day. Men in drag is not always a pretty…
Unofficial Maha Kumbh and Makar Sankranti Google doodle
The sun transits from Sagittarius to Capricorn during the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere and India celebrates Makar Sankranti…
Cutting the Chai Calendar 2013 (pdf, printable, A4, with Indian festivals and holidays)
There was a time when I spent much of my spare time cutting the chai, but now with so much Googooling, the fire beneath the tea pot at Cutting the…Continue Reading →
To whomsoever it concerns, knows
There are those who lech at women in public and also express anger over rape and molestation incidents online. I…
Unofficial Norman Woodland bar code Google doodle
Google posts doodles on death anniversaries and not on deaths. But the very purpose of Cutting the Chai’s unofficial Google…
