Birds of the Same Feather
There might not be many left at Trafalgar Square (readers from London will know better). But Delhi still has a lot of them, my white T-shirts drying in the sun…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).
There might not be many left at Trafalgar Square (readers from London will know better). But Delhi still has a lot of them, my white T-shirts drying in the sun…Continue Reading →
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I have been staying away from home for the last five-and-a-half years (long time, and it passed by so fast). Of the many things that this experience has taught me,…Continue Reading →
Every time old friends form the old workplace gather together on a Saturday evening for a drink, I am always…
This archived title image is of a couple driving in their vintage Fiat (Premier Padmini) at Connaught Place, New Delhi. Photographed October 1, 2006. The description of the present title…Continue Reading →
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Czech model Eva Herzigova said “Hello boys,” in that famous Wonderbra ad, a dozen years ago, and we all responded in a full throated “Hi!” The times they have changed.…Continue Reading →
Many have been cursing Blogger Beta and many more are enjoying the experience. I fall in the latter category. Switching…
The Great Indian Middle Class having lost all hopes on the political fraternity and the bureaucracy is left with only…