Why Twitter appears to be so big in India when it actually isn’t
If we look at the news and what the news media tells us, we would be under the impression that Twitter is a big deal in India. How big a…Continue Reading →
Proclamation of Emergency, as published in The Gazette of India 40 years ago
(This is the first in a series of posts on 40 years of Emergency) 40 years ago on June 25,…
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…
1962: Newspaper front page from 50 years ago when China attacked India
It’s been 50 years since the ‘Himalayan Blunder’ of 1962 when the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) unexpectedly rampaged into Indian territory and reached the outskirts of Tezpur in Assam before…Continue Reading →
Vintage photographs of Shillong from 1948 (also Vallabhbhai Patel calling people of Assam lazy)
64 years later, Shillong is virtually unrecognisable. I could only recognise the Governor House on Bivar Road, then known as…
Zeenat Aman is the classic Indian dark-haired beauty in 1970 Air India ad
“Memories of dark-haired beauties,” is what a traveller to India will bring back, promises a 1970 advertisement for Air India.…
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 →
A Big Dose of India Versus Pakistan Cricket Stats
Everybody and their mother-in-law is writing a blog post on the big cricket match on Wednesday. It does take a…
How Arrogant Apple Lost a Potential Fan
That I am not an Apple fan, is because of Apple. Apple is itself responsible for not being able to…
The Logic Behind the New Rupee Currency Symbol
Update: The symbol for the Indian Rupee has been officially included in the latest release of the Unicode Standard (ver 6.0.0) Got this via a tweet from @unnikoroth. This presentation…Continue Reading →
Download the New Rupee Symbol Font (and a Symbol for the Paise)
Update: The symbol for the Indian Rupee has been officially included in the latest release of the Unicode Standard (ver…
To control AIDS ‘stop sexual contacts between Indians and foreigners’
"Government bigwigs in India plan to prevent an AIDS plague from engulfing their country by banning natives from having sex…
