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Cutting the Chai Calendar 2014 (pdf, jpg, png, printable, A4, with Indian festivals and holidays)
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2014 calendar (one-page, A4 with Indian festivals and holidays). Grab your free copy

2014 is here and so is the 8th edition of Cutting the Chai Calendar. This year the calendar’s got a facelift while retaining all the desired elements. And as in…Continue Reading →

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Download for free: 40 HarperCollins India ebooks on Google Play

Disclosure: I am an ebook evangelist. Update 2: As expected, Google and HarperCollins India seems to have been alerted of…

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100 years of Indian cinema - India Post's 50 commemorative stamps
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100 Years of Indian Cinema: India Post’s 50 commemorative stamps

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Cinema century: 3 May, 1913 - Raja Harishchandra and the beginnings of a national obsession
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Cinema century: May 3, 1913 – Raja Harishchandra and the beginnings of a national obsession

(This is an edited version of a post first published on April 21, 2012) In India, cinema isn’t just a passion. It is an obsession. We have perhaps inherited this…Continue Reading →

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Cutting the Chai Calendar 2013 (pdf, printable, A4, with Indian festivals and holidays)

There was a time when I spent much of my spare time cutting the chai, but now with so much…

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The Amul girl isn’t 50, yet: Trivia, an awesome image and a movie

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Dadasaheb Phalke's Raja Harishchandra (1933) on India Public Domain Movie Project (Also in 3D)
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Raja Harishchandra (1913) on India Public Domain Movie Project (and in 3D)

In India, cinema isn’t just a passion. It is frenzical. We have perhaps inherited this acute addiction from the man…

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The India Public Domain Movie Project premieres with Kismet (1943)

Ever since I first understood the concept of public domain, this project of getting Indian films which out of copyright…

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Cutting the Chai Calendar 2012 (printable, A4, with Indian holidays)

Given the time I spend Googooling these days, that the 2012 – and therefore the sixth edition of – Cutting the Chai calendar is up on this blog is an…Continue Reading →

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