No Holi doodle on Google home page? Worry not, here it is
Were you a little disappointed to discover that the colourful doodle on the Google home page today was not for Holi, but instead for the Interneational Women’s Day? I was.…Continue Reading →
If Google doodled the Samajwadi Party victory in Uttar Pradesh
I had written about my love for Google doodles in a previous post. I also have a thing for logos…
Mithun ‘Gunmaster G-9’ Chakraborty and Kitu ‘Svetlana’ Gidwani together in an ad
Very few actresses can the match the measure of elegance and sensuality that Kitu Gidwani has. I do not recall…
Demystified: ‘Your cell phone has a name’ Facebook hack that’s gone viral
(Cross-posted from a note on Cutting the Chai’s Facebook page) Your Cell Phone has a name! Take the last three digits of your number (Example: ***_***_*618) Type it like this:…Continue Reading →
The India Public Domain Movie Project premieres with Kismet (1943)
Ever since I first understood the concept of public domain, this project of getting Indian films which out of copyright…
Rajesh Khanna and the Red Rose in Fabina Suitings & Shirtings ad
I doubt whether the proprietors of Fabina Textiles Pvt. Ltd. watched Rajesh Khanna’s 1980 psycho-thriller Red Rose before agreeing the…
To promote Chrome, is Google playing cheap?
Google’s Chrome is right on track to unseat Microsoft’s Internet Explorer from the web browser throne and the folks from Mountain View are trying every trick in the trade to…Continue Reading →
#fail (randomness): QR codes
Some random thoughts that come me randomly. The first in what I would like to believe would turn into a…
How to read the stories behind the Google Doodles
Google has till date posted 1304 doodles (yes, I counted), but added stories for only 96 of them. So how…
When @MasalaBai got @PoojaB1972’s goat
Work for me is fun, more so with colleagues like @MasalaBai (Rituparna Chatterjee) around. So today following the news of the blast in an Israeli embassy car in Delhi when…Continue Reading →
Top 10: Indian political parties with amusing (if not hilarious) names
I would have named the party I founded as the ‘Tea Party’ only that the prerequisites of a constitution, 100…
Opening a third front in the Times of India vs Hindu ad battle
As The Times of India versus The Hindu advertising battle rages on, Cutting the Chai thought it was about time…
