To control AIDS ‘stop sexual contacts between Indians and foreigners’
"Government bigwigs in India plan to prevent an AIDS plague from engulfing their country by banning natives from having sex with tourists and other foreigners."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).
"Government bigwigs in India plan to prevent an AIDS plague from engulfing their country by banning natives from having sex with tourists and other foreigners."Continue Reading →
All you need to do is type *#0*# and the LCD Test panel will display on the screen. Press 8…
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After five years of blogging on Blogger, it’s now time to move on to WordPress (as announced earlier). While the flavour of Cutting the Chai will not change as a…Continue Reading →
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Don’t mind the title of the post. I couldn’t help it. Afterall while T-Series’ army of lawyers couldn’t yet stop Guruji.com from indexing ‘pirated’ content, the previous post on Cutting…Continue Reading →
While one Guruji (Shibu Soren) has been upto his usual ways in the political arena, another Guruji, of the online…
Before you proceed further reading this post, please note that this is just a quick fix solution, a jugaad, that…
In the aftermath of the massacre of 76 security personnel by the Naxals in Chhattisgarh, a debate is on regarding the use of air power against the leftist militants. While…Continue Reading →
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With the IPL broadcasting (deferred) live on YouTube, the Twenty20 bug also seem to have bitten Google Chrome. Came across…