Review: LG KG300 (Dynamite)
[Caution: Loooong post ahead] After over three years, I have finally changed my mobile phone (to the relief of my friends). The old one is still functioning, but I needed…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).
[Caution: Loooong post ahead] After over three years, I have finally changed my mobile phone (to the relief of my friends). The old one is still functioning, but I needed…Continue Reading →
Sudheendra Kulkarni shares this heartening anecdote about the outgoing President APJ Abdul Kalam in his column in The Sunday Express:…
Shekhar Gupta (as always) puts forward an articulated argument why Pratibha Patil is not the right choice for President in…
Dwaipayan sent me this: Legendary Thai senator Mechai Viravaidya, who single-handedly crafted Thailand’s success story against AIDS, has inspired India to find its very own condom man. India’s National Aids…Continue Reading →
You can call me politically ignorant, but the headline of this post was my first reaction on reading the ‘Breaking…
I’m sure most of my generation who had watched the TVC version of this Nataraj Pencils print ad would still…
One of the high points of our post-school discussions (besides cricket and girls) was about which song was lifted from where. That was the era when Anu Malik reigned supreme.…Continue Reading →
A tag came my way from the girl from South of the Border, West of the Sun. It asks me…
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas’ Saat Hindustani might not be the most watched of Indian films, but it marked the beginning of…
The reasons for us to watch Jag Mundhra’s films during school and early college years were obvious. Now when his latest venture Provoked released, I didn’t have the urge to…Continue Reading →
One of the more popular posts on this blog is Euphony from the Yesteryears, where I had compiled a list…
A year after a programme was launched to sell condoms at theatres showing porn films in India, health officials say…