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Mobile phone
India Soumyadip ChoudhuryOctober 15, 2013 0

How emoji is making it easier for the illiterate to use mobile phones

For the poor in India it is the mobile phone that has proved to be a bigger revolution than the Internet. The poor don’t directly use the Internet but almost…Continue Reading →

Gillette Guard
Grumbles

Is the Gillette Guard as revolutionary a razor as the AP story makes it appear to be?

I love innovation and inexpensive innovations more so. So this headline ‘Cheap razor made after P&G watches Indians shave‘ obviously…

Soumyadip Choudhury 3October 7, 2013
India Shopping Search Engine
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Announcing India Shopping Search: A custom search engine for online shopaholics

I do a lot of my shopping online and always have an eye open to catch the best diaper deals…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0September 17, 2013
Inflation
India Soumyadip ChoudhuryAugust 30, 2013 3

India inflation adjustment calculator (1939-2013) at 2013 prices

A simple online Excel sheet to calculate the value of any amount of rupees from any year from 1939 to 2013 in 2013 prices. This calculator is based on the…Continue Reading →

Google's 'March on Washington' website on the Civil Rights movement practices discrimination
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Google’s website on civil rights movement practises discrimination

You just cannot miss the irony trying to access Google’s website on the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King,…

Soumyadip Choudhury 1August 28, 2013
Ad from 1982: Pan Parag with Jalal Agha and Kalpana Iyer
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Ad from 1982: Pan Parag with Jalal Agha and Kalpana Iyer (and why I can’t ever forget Jalal’s name)

It has happened to the best of quizzards and I was far from being anywhere close to the best. The…

Soumyadip Choudhury 1August 22, 2013
Grumbles Soumyadip ChoudhuryAugust 20, 2013 0

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 repeated the same (without fact-checking of course. Facts don’t always…Continue Reading →

Warning! Trespassers will be shot. And the photos will be posted on our Facebook page.
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Trespassers will be shot. And…

A sign for the times.

Soumyadip Choudhury 0August 9, 2013
Download for free: 39 HarperCollins India ebooks on Google Play
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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…

Soumyadip Choudhury 34August 5, 2013
Childhood and first wedding photos of Kishore Kumar
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryAugust 4, 2013 0

Kishore Kumar: Childhood and first wedding photos

Who is the greatest playback singer of Hindi cinema? The debate was raging from much before I was born (and is still on) and as soon as I could comprehend…Continue Reading →

Milkha misses bronze medal by split second
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag: The actual newspaper headlines in September 1960 were quite different

Indians would have surely been disappointed by Milkha Singh’s legendary defeat in the 400 metres final at the 1960 Rome…

Soumyadip Choudhury 2July 21, 2013
100 years of Indian cinema - India Post's 50 commemorative stamps
Bollywood

100 Years of Indian Cinema: India Post’s 50 commemorative stamps

[This post is part of the 100 Years of Indian Cinema celebrations on Cutting the Chai] In May this year…

Soumyadip Choudhury 1July 18, 2013

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