Trust the Chinese to sell maternity jeans for men
I am not an avid online shopper, but am slowly changing my purchasing priorities. While nothing can beat the experience of the touch and feel of offline shopping, there are…Continue Reading →
Wills Filter: Made for each other
This was perhaps the most noticed (and the longest running) of all the ads in Hindustan Thompson Associates’ (HTA) ‘Made…
Molten gold, Rs 28: The ad that got Calcutta curious
The Indian lust for gold can never be quenched. Gold prices had recently crossed Rs 29,000 for 10 grams. Even…
Announcing soumyadip.com – The gateway to my online existences
I had this plot of online real estate for many years, that was used only as an address for letters to reach me. But anyone not knowing my mailing address…Continue Reading →
Need directions? Pay up
Perhaps bugged by incessant queries from lost people a roadside tyre puncture repair shop near the L Block Market, Sector…
Nutramul dada: Jugal Hansraj’s second-best role ever
Second-best, as his best was in Masoom (1983). Maybe growing up and stopping the Nutramul intake had an adverse effect…
Please keep your showe’s hear
We find these misspellings all over the country and beyond. This from outside a temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. Also the apostrophe s is in superscript (as if in a…Continue Reading →
Why Agneepath needed a remake
Some movies just need to be there, embedded in our memories. We shouldn’t attempt to refresh its memory by trying…
10 minutes to 10
At Surajkund Fair, Faridabad, Haryana on February 4, 2011. It was sometime in the afternoon, the clock wasn’t showing the…
Amrutanjan takes on Zandu’s badnaam Munni with Savita Bhabhi
The script of the new ad for Amrutanjan Roll-On balm reads like one straight out from a Savita Bhabhi comic (minus the sex). Two couples travelling on a train, one…Continue Reading →
The religion of noise
Peeved with the constant noise blaring from the loudspeakers in the kanvaria vehicles passing through the highway close to my…
10 years since that summer of 2001: What 'Dil Chahta Hai' meant to me
(Dil Chahta Hai was released on August 10, 2001. This post was first published in 2011) Summer of 2001. Bhopal.…
