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 tagline reads “a repository of (mostly) useless information, since 2005.” Vijay Krishna, from Chennai, India, has been taking forward his personalised encyclopedic expedition since May 2005 (the time when…Continue Reading →
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She came into my life, actually my toilet, and gave me company every time I went inside to answer nature’s…
Not by design, neither was it an accident. But this New Year’s eve, not a drop of the stuff that Bacchus lords over went down my throat. I had been…Continue Reading →
A goat posing for me on the steps of Fatehpur Sikri (Notice the smile on her lips).
Amar Chirta Katha, that venerable source of history and mythology for an entire pre-cable TV and internet generation also gratified…
Some readers found this title image a little distasteful and asked me to take it off. Keeping their sensibilities in…
Was a little preoccupied all these days and couldn’t visit blogadesh. As things settle down on the professional front, issues…
I lasted in my first job for two years two-and-a-half months. This time I’m changing my official address in exactly 10 months. Too soon, some say. But when opportunities come…Continue Reading →
A 1986 Only Vimal ad featuring the cricketer for whom the word swashbuckling was perhaps coined – Viv Richards, or…
December 13, 2001. The Indian Parliament is attacked. A dozen dead, including the attackers. Massive deployment of soldiers by India…
