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 and like to play around with designs and therefore occasionally…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).
I had written about my love for Google doodles in a previous post. I also have a thing for logos and like to play around with designs and therefore occasionally…Continue Reading →
Very few actresses can the match the measure of elegance and sensuality that Kitu Gidwani has. I do not recall…
(Cross-posted from a note on Cutting the Chai’s Facebook page) Your Cell Phone has a name! Take the last three…
Ever since I first understood the concept of public domain, this project of getting Indian films which out of copyright into a single place has been a recurring desire. But…Continue Reading →
I doubt whether the proprietors of Fabina Textiles Pvt. Ltd. watched Rajesh Khanna’s 1980 psycho-thriller Red Rose before agreeing the…
Google’s Chrome is right on track to unseat Microsoft’s Internet Explorer from the web browser throne and the folks from…
Some random thoughts that come me randomly. The first in what I would like to believe would turn into a series.Continue Reading →
Google has till date posted 1304 doodles (yes, I counted), but added stories for only 96 of them. So how…
Work for me is fun, more so with colleagues like @MasalaBai (Rituparna Chatterjee) around. So today following the news of…
I would have named the party I founded as the ‘Tea Party’ only that the prerequisites of a constitution, 100 members, Rs 10,000 and 100 affidavits on Rs 2 stamp…Continue Reading →
As The Times of India versus The Hindu advertising battle rages on, Cutting the Chai thought it was about time…
There’s a difference in knowing from a history book and learning via a historical source. Accounts from a time when…