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).
Was playing around with the recently launched Google Insights for Search and discovered some interesting (some expected) trends. Though “Insights for Search applies a filter for search terms that may…Continue Reading →
I had been looking for a good Olympics medal tally widget to put up on this blog. But didn’t seem…
This ad has been viewed almost 7.5 lakh times on YouTube (and has also been flagged an inappropriate for minors…
One of the world’s most desirable women featured in an ad but TV networks in the USA found her undesirable. Undesirable because Eva Mendes looked too desirable in the ad…Continue Reading →
Often you have to wait for ages to transfer files to/from your harddisk to/from a portable storage device. This usually…
Mass For Awareness, an NGO headed by cartoonist Neeraj Gupta, has initiated a campaign to educate the voters about the…
The day before yesterday, on my way to work I got stuck in a traffic jam. Nothing new. With the number of vehicles on Delhi’s roads coupled with the Kanwariya…Continue Reading →
Of late I’ve been facing problems downloading videos from YouTube using my favourite tools – KeepVid and the MP4 download…
Aur bheriye ne memne se kaha,Mein tumhe kha jaoonga…Hhh… hhh… Gale mein khich khich?Vicks loVicks mein cheh aushidi tatwa hain,Jo…
In an expected move (you can usually foresee what the Indian Communists would do) the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expelled the Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee from the party.…Continue Reading →
It was almost like a World Cup Cricket final and it seems that the better team won. And what a…
The other day my brother called up. “Delhi’s going to host the Winter Olympics,” he joked. But for the people…
