20-Year-Old Lisa Ray Wrapped in a Bombay Dyeing Towel
Lisa Ray, one of the prettiest faces around, was a teenage crush (I had a number of them). Easily the hottest import from Canada to land on Indian shores, the…Continue Reading →
Sharmila Tagore in 1966 Murphy Radio Ad
The language was Bangla, but the accent and the stories, distinguishably Chinese. An avid radio listener, my father tried to…
Old Old Monk Ad from 1969
Old Monk, as all Old Monk bacchantes will agree, is not just a rum, it’s an institution. You don’t drink…
Lisa Ray in Bombay Dyeing Vivaldi Ad
Quite a long while ago when I had initiated (and now reviving) the Fantastic Females series on this blog, the name Lisa Ray was on the top of the list…Continue Reading →
Adholics
Meghna Girohtra, from Bombay, has collected 243 vintage Indian print advertisements (on the last count) on Flickr. A collection which…
Sexy Indian Ads
Adjective: sexy (sexier, sexiest) seksee1. Marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire of interest“feeling sexy”; “sexy clothes”; “sexy poses”;…
Vintage Indian Advertisements 2.12
All the four banks featured in this post were nationalised approximately four years after the publication of these ads. There were 10 others too. The logos of United Bank of…Continue Reading →
Season Two – Vintage Indian Advertisements
On June 24 ended the inaugural season of Vintage Indian Advertisements on Cutting the Chai, featuring 61 print ads in…
Rubbers of India
In New Delhi’s Nirman Bhavan there is a clock, but it doesn’t tell the time. It calculates the cumulative fruits…
