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Mrinalini Sarabhai the unofficial Google doodle
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryDecember 20, 2016 0

2016 in unofficial Google doodles

There are some doodles that Google didn’t (or wouldn’t) doodle. The Chaiwallah prides himself as an unofficial Google doodler. I have written about these unofficial doodles and they have also…Continue Reading →

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan - the Unofficial Google doodle
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – the unofficial Google doodle

I was in school when she first mesmerised us all with those emerald eyes and over two decades later, those…

Soumyadip Choudhury 1November 1, 2015
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Watch: Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Maino’s wedding video

Whenever I have a little time on my hand (which is actually very little these days), I like to browse…

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APJ Abdul Kalam: The unofficial Google doodle
India Soumyadip ChoudhuryJuly 28, 2015 0

APJ Abdul Kalam: The unofficial Google doodle

The ‘People’s President’ Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam died of a heart attack in my hometown Shillong. He was 83. A blackboard sketch featuring his signature hairstyle and the different…Continue Reading →

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The best of Charles Correa (1930-2015)

Goodbye! Charles Correa (1930-2015), one of India’s finest architects and urban planners. Some of his best works captured within an…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0June 17, 2015
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‘Be responsible. Don’t use a condom tonight!’ Parsis urged to make babies in a series of new ads

The Parsis are an incredible people, but their numbers of fast dwindling. To counter this alarming fall in population, the…

Soumyadip Choudhury 1November 12, 2014
Unofficla Khushwant Singh Google doodle
Sex Soumyadip ChoudhuryMarch 26, 2014 0

The unofficial Khushwant Singh Google doodle

This is from a few days ago when the man whose pen wore no condom fell one short of a century. The unofficial Khushwant Singh Google doodle. And an animated…Continue Reading →

Alvida, Farooq Sheikh: Hindi cinema's most endearing leading man
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Alvida, Farooq Sheikh

Soumyadip Choudhury 0December 29, 2013
Shakuntala Devi (1929-2013): 1977 newspaper clipping on her mathematical prowess
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1977 newspaper clipping: Shakuntala Devi’s (1929-2013) famous 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds

During my childhood, there were only two things that could function faster than a computer one Chacha Chaudhary’s brain and…

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Technology Soumyadip ChoudhuryDecember 16, 2012 0

Unofficial Norman Woodland bar code Google doodle

Google posts doodles on death anniversaries and not on deaths. But the very purpose of Cutting the Chai’s unofficial Google doodles are to imagine the doodles that Google didn’t or…Continue Reading →

Yash Chopra - unofficial Google doodle
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Yash Chopra – the unofficial Google doodle

RIP Yash Chopra of the Swiss Alps, of chiffon sarees and Deewar.

Soumyadip Choudhury 0October 23, 2012
The unofficial Google doodle on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday incorporates two symbols characteristic of the great man - khadi and the classic round spectacles.
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Mahatma Gandhi’s 143rd birthday unofficial Google doodle

Google had doodled Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s birthday back in 2009 with an “indigo drawing of Gandhi on khadi cloth“. Google…

Soumyadip Choudhury 1October 2, 2012

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