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APJ Abdul Kalam: The unofficial Google doodle
India Soumyadip ChoudhuryJuly 28, 2015 0

APJ Abdul Kalam: The unofficial Google doodle

The ‘People’s President’ Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam died of a heart attack in my hometown Shillong. He was 83. A blackboard sketch featuring his signature hairstyle and the different…Continue Reading →

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India

The best of Charles Correa (1930-2015)

Goodbye! Charles Correa (1930-2015), one of India’s finest architects and urban planners. Some of his best works captured within an…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0June 17, 2015
RK Laxman - the unofficial Google doodle
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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…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0January 27, 2015
Unofficla Khushwant Singh Google doodle
Sex Soumyadip ChoudhuryMarch 26, 2014 0

The unofficial Khushwant Singh Google doodle

This is from a few days ago when the man whose pen wore no condom fell one short of a century. The unofficial Khushwant Singh Google doodle. And an animated…Continue Reading →

Suchitra Sen unofficial Google doodle
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Suchitra Sen unofficial Google doodle

Suchitra Sen (April 6, 1931 – January 17, 2014) "I am to be seen only on screen because I am…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0January 17, 2014
Alvida, Farooq Sheikh: Hindi cinema's most endearing leading man
Bollywood

Alvida, Farooq Sheikh

Soumyadip Choudhury 0December 29, 2013
Pran (1920-2013), a hero of a villain - Unofficial Google doodle
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryJuly 13, 2013 1

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 all the villains of Hindi cinema. By hero-like I don’t…Continue Reading →

Shakuntala Devi (1929-2013): 1977 newspaper clipping on her mathematical prowess
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1977 newspaper clipping: Shakuntala Devi’s (1929-2013) famous 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds

During my childhood, there were only two things that could function faster than a computer one Chacha Chaudhary’s brain and…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0April 22, 2013
Yash Chopra - unofficial Google doodle
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Yash Chopra – the unofficial Google doodle

RIP Yash Chopra of the Swiss Alps, of chiffon sarees and Deewar.

Soumyadip Choudhury 0October 23, 2012
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryJuly 12, 2012 0

Dara Singh beats Blonde Tiger: 60-year-old news clippings from the late wrestler’s heyday

In the final bout, death got more points but Dara Singh won. The loveable wrestler turned actor died today aged 83. A few days ago I was reading Vir Sanghvi’s…Continue Reading →

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