Whether it is tea or sex, consent is everything
Sex is great. More people should have more sex. But only when it is consensual. The problem is many people do not actually understand consent. But all of us should.…Continue Reading →
Audio of Swami Vivekananda’s 1893 Chicago speech going viral on WhatsApp is fake
Was wondering about sudden spike in interest in a 2012 post on Swami Vivekananda’s 1893 Chicago address. Soon a forwarded…
New emoji: Maggi fan after Maggi ban
After tests find lead and MSG in samples of Maggi, many state governments have placed temporary bans on the sale…
10 years of Cutting the Chai: A decade of moulding the digital clay
2005 – it seems like so long a time ago (in fact, it is). Only birds tweeted back then and Facebook was ‘Thefacebook’ confined to a few elite US colleges.…Continue Reading →
Coming soon: The post-Piku t-shirts (and panjabis) 😉
You might have read the reviews, or better still, watched the ‘motion picture’. Shoojit Sircar’s Piku brings out the poop…
AAP’s Delhi sweep – the unofficial Google doodle
While it is true that Delhi does get more attention than it actually deserves, but then many astounding things happen…
RK Laxman – the unofficial Google doodle
RK Laxman, India’s best-known cartoonist, died on January 26, 2015. He was 93. I had the opportunity to meet the legendary cartoonist once, as a student in Bhopal, but I…Continue Reading →
You can now embed WhatsApp videos (and images) on webpages
You can now while away your hours sending inane messages and deciphering emoji puzzles in the comfort of the web…
‘Be responsible. Don’t use a condom tonight!’ Parsis urged to make babies in a series of new ads
The Parsis are an incredible people, but their numbers of fast dwindling. To counter this alarming fall in population, the…
Chai-na
(On the occasion of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s India visit)Continue Reading →
Evolution of audio players through ‘PK’ posters
Yet another Cutting the Chai image that got massively shared online. While the parody poster of Rajkumar Hirani’s upcoming film…
When the Government of India officially invited the world to come and kill our tigers for fun
There are fewer than 2,000 tigers in India and it is not only because of poachers or environmental factors. When…
