View from the Balcony on a Full Moon Night
The winds blow a lot stronger, the rain hits a lot harder, the lift takes a lot longer but the view is a lot better. Vaishali, Ghaziabad as seen from…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).
The winds blow a lot stronger, the rain hits a lot harder, the lift takes a lot longer but the view is a lot better. Vaishali, Ghaziabad as seen from…Continue Reading →
For obvious reasons this statue was quite popular with men (and also some women) at Surajkund Fair this year. Men…
I know I am in a minority, maybe even a namuna. I haven’t watched a single IPL match from the…
Almost everyone seems to be an activist. People who have no clue about what the Jan Lok Pal Bill is all about, are extending their wholehearted support for its implementation.…Continue Reading →
I now have two (active) blogs to run. One is this and the other at work. Will occasionally cross-post from…
Everybody and their mother-in-law is writing a blog post on the big cricket match on Wednesday. It does take a…
Delhi is a city of interesting abbreviations. CID isn’t necessarily Crime Investigation Department, it can also be expanded to Crime Immunisation Dias (whatever that means, the worth lies not in…Continue Reading →
Drunken fights are fun to watch (the kind where things don’t take a serious turn). More so when you have…
This one was much simpler than I had expected. Was in fact surprised to discover that some people were actually…
That I am not an Apple fan, is because of Apple. Apple is itself responsible for not being able to turn me into an Apple aficionado (actually, they don’t seem…Continue Reading →
For me the Uncle Pai association is stronger with Tinkle than with Amar Chitra Katha. Amar Chitra Katha told mythological…
The infamous Indian sister-in-law, after her initial brush with the Indian law in 2009 when the domain savitabhabhi.com was shown…