La Lara La La… Liril
“The waterfall was Indian advertising’s watershed, when former Air-India hostess Karen Lunel appeared in a green two-piece bikini for Liril. The first in a series that later also brought us…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 waterfall was Indian advertising’s watershed, when former Air-India hostess Karen Lunel appeared in a green two-piece bikini for Liril. The first in a series that later also brought us…Continue Reading →
I tend to associate Numero Uno with an ill fated pair of jeans of mine and underfed, but nevertheless, sexy…
As expected Firefox 3 created a new Guinness World Record or the most software downloaded in 24 hours. Thanks to…
Yet another blog exposé of the fallacies of the media (deliberately dropping the adjective ‘Indian’ as this phenomenon seems universal). Many newspapers carried a story about a 88-year-old on-the-run Nazi…Continue Reading →
Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw[April 3, 1914 – June 27, 2008] I can’t say anything that hasn’t already…
An audio extract from the controversial play Ghasiram Kotwal penned by the late Vijay Tendulkar – staged during the Summer…
Everyone of us would have had that one pair of jeans that we were/are madly in love with. Mine was a pair of tailored Ruf & Tuf jeans. This television…Continue Reading →
Join Firefox in its mission to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours! Sounds…
In this campaign – actually a surrogate beer ad masquerading as a pseudo public service advertisement – for Haywards 5000…
Often friends ask me on how to deter people from copying or downloading stuff that they put up on the internet. My suggestion is simple – it is not worth…Continue Reading →
Just noticed it a while ago, I distinctly don’t remember seeing it earlier in the day, the new Google favicon.…