Google is diversifying, but their expanding ambit surely wouldn’t include pan masala. But that doesn’t mean that you cannot find packets of Google Pan Mazza (pan masala or mouth freshner,…Continue Reading →
Tampons don’t sell much in India. But as this advertisement indicates, that efforts to peddle the product to Indian women…
There was a time when Colgate was synonymous with toothpaste (and they also made hair oil). 1957 advertisement for Colgate…
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 →
There are a lot of distractions while reading eBooks on the phone and Twitter is one. As I was swiping…
Govind Nihalani faced threats from Hindu right-wing groups for making ‘Tamas’ (1987) and had to be given police protection.
Beauca front open bra advertisement from 1954.Continue Reading →
Ad from 1954: If you are unmarried, you have the pay for sex education (or pretend to be married to…
Update: Filmfare seems to have removed its magazines from sale on Magzter. As regular readers of this blog (if there…
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 →
I love innovation and inexpensive innovations more so. So this headline ‘Cheap razor made after P&G watches Indians shave‘ obviously…
I do a lot of my shopping online and always have an eye open to catch the best diaper deals…
