Comic: When @KapilSibal joined Twitter
The idea first came as a tweet last night and transformed into a comic this morning. The Union Minister for Communications & Information Technology Kapil Sibal is finally tweeting (had…Continue Reading →
Narendra Modi (and others) got it wrong. Rupee wasn’t equal to the dollar in 1947
This ‘fact’ like so many others had been flooding my timeline for long and when the wannabe-PM Narendra Modi also…
VK Krishna Menon’s ‘Nehru’s vision, Menon’s mission’ election poster from 1967
VK Krishna Menon was denied a Congress ticket in the 1967 Lok Sabha elections from the Bombay North East constituency.…
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 doesn’t usually doodle birthdays more than once, except for when…Continue Reading →
Manmohan Singh’s 80th birthday unofficial Google doodle
Our dear Prime Minister Sardar Manmohan Singh turns an octogenarian on September 26, 2012 and Cutting the Chai commemorates it…
President Pranab Google doodle
So Poltu will be the 13th President of the Republic of India. I think it is good for the psychology…
Vintage photographs of Shillong from 1948 (also Vallabhbhai Patel calling people of Assam lazy)
64 years later, Shillong is virtually unrecognisable. I could only recognise the Governor House on Bivar Road, then known as Government House, the characteristic Ward’s Lake and the Assembly House…Continue Reading →
If Google doodled the Samajwadi Party victory in Uttar Pradesh
I had written about my love for Google doodles in a previous post. I also have a thing for logos…
Top 10: Indian political parties with amusing (if not hilarious) names
I would have named the party I founded as the ‘Tea Party’ only that the prerequisites of a constitution, 100…
For American cartoonists in WWII era Gandhi was a fool and a traitor
Cartoonists in American newspapers during World War II didn’t seem have much regard for, or an understanding of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. This article from the August 24, 1942 issue of…Continue Reading →
The absurdity of Ramdev
The manner in which Ramdev was evicted from his protest venue was indeed stupid. I expected better from the people…
More than Lok Pal, it is the Internet that Can Stop Corruption
Almost everyone seems to be an activist. People who have no clue about what the Jan Lok Pal Bill is…
