The Morning Marchers and Curious Onlookers
The trailer was there in the last post, now for the full version. Of the 170 photos clicked only 15 (including the one in the last post) made it to…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).
The trailer was there in the last post, now for the full version. Of the 170 photos clicked only 15 (including the one in the last post) made it to…Continue Reading →
The last few days have been erratic, as reflected by my recent blogging behaviour. I expect things to settle down…
Some days you are too busy and preoccupied to sit at leisure and write something for your blog. Then a…
Some weeks are easy and then there are those which refuse to budge away. The last one was one of…
The sun transits from Sagittarius to Capricorn during the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere and India celebrates Makar Sankranti.
Definitely not stupider than me. Bogged with helping coordinate and conduct over 700 interviews in three days, I didn’t even get the opportunity to read my favourite blogs, nor the…Continue Reading →
Recognise these signs? Can comprehend them? Maybe you do. After all you had memorised them for the driving test. How…
Many years ago – when getting a telephone connection from the never so reliable Department of Telecommunications (DoT) took months,…
Rivers have always left me in awe. And when it is the he-river – the Brahmaputra, the vast expanse of liquid makes me do nothing but stare. Whenever the train…Continue Reading →
Chassis and engine from a Tata or Ashok Leyland truck (some vintage ones with Mercedes and Bedford engines still exist),…