Vintage Indian Advertisements – VII
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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).
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“Lyrics today aren’t poetry, just bad prose,” rightly says Gulzar. If not for the prose, the latest issue of Outlook…
The sixth instalment: [Click on the images for a bigger view] Amul Chocolates Camel Instrument Box Amul Chocolates Bata Sandals…
Here’s the fifth instalment: [Click on the images for a bigger view] Boroline Blow Plast Limited – Arora-Hasbro Toys Binaca Fluoride Toothpaste Camel Water Colours and Poster Colours Bata Coloured…Continue Reading →
Here’s the fourth instalment: [Click on the images for a bigger view] Gold Spot Morton Vicks Vaporub Life Insurance Corporation…
Book oneGilles Caron for press freedom American soldier on Hill 875 during the battle of Dak To, South Vietnam, November…
I still remember those Sunday evenings when we would all huddle together before the TV for the biggest even of the week – the Sunday evening movie on the national…Continue Reading →
Soutik Biswas, writes about the music of Shillong – ‘India’s little rock and roll town’ – in BBC News: Shillong…
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The online equivalent to the Oscars – the 10th Annual Webby Awards have been handed over (Yes, I’m late with the news). Awarded by the International Academy of Digital Arts…Continue Reading →
Photographs from a recent fashion show in New Delhi.
Snapshots from the North Zone Regional Abilympics – Olympics of abilities – held at Delhi from June 7 to 9.…