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 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,…
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…
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 →
Trespassers will be shot. And…
A sign for the times.
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…
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 →
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…
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…
Sunny Leone in Viiking XXX energy mix surrogate ad
Sunny Leone has successfully transited from mainstream pornography to mainstream Bollywood celebrityhood. With films and product endorsements, this Punjabi kudi has her face (well, more than that) plastered on walls…Continue Reading →
Pran (1920-2013) – a hero of a villain: Unofficial Google doodle
The obits call him Bollywood’s most feared villain. Not for me. To me Pran Saheb was the most hero-like of…
Why what’s trending on Twitter in India is largely inconsequential
Now that the mainstream Indian media has discovered the wonders of the Internet, anything that is remotely out of the…
