Numismatic Archives
Paisa ye paisa, paisa hai kaisaNahi koi aisa, jaisa ye paisaKe ho museebat, na ho museebatHo museebat na ho museebat, saat aath nau das… wrote Anand Bakshi and sang Kishore…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).
Paisa ye paisa, paisa hai kaisaNahi koi aisa, jaisa ye paisaKe ho museebat, na ho museebatHo museebat na ho museebat, saat aath nau das… wrote Anand Bakshi and sang Kishore…Continue Reading →
The third Isspecial Cutting Chai (June 2006) is offered to A Journey Called Life for its relentless blogging and a…
This is the third title image heading for the archives and the first to feature a tea cup – the…
A few days ago I received an email asking me where to find a VCD of The Bicycle Thief. The usual suspects drew blank and I tried the good ol’…Continue Reading →
Vinod Mehta accuses the Indian India’s ‘smug, selfish, self-centered, satiated middle class, fattened on the fruits of the booming economy’…
May 29, 2005. 55 per cent of the voters in France said no to the ratification of the proposed constitution…
Kartar Singh, former Director of the Institute of Rural Management Anand, writes in The Indian Express: I am convinced that: one, securing social justice for everyone – and not necessarily…Continue Reading →
The Prime Minister thinks, “the matter is already settled.” And he is “pained to see the agonising experience the youth…
Reservation is a dirty word. It symbolises exclusion rather than what it purportedly strives to achieve – an inclusive egalitarian…
Often people ask for answers to questions which might not have any realistic relevance. Given my usual antipathy about how things are done in this world, many friends and colleagues…Continue Reading →
in commissions of inquiry. ‘Netaji’ – a name which might rank as one of the most common prefixes for youth…