60 years ago on Sunday, March 31, 1954 the first Filmfare Awards ceremony (for films released in 1952-53) was held at Bombay’s Metro Cinema and the subsequent issue of the…Continue Reading →
Update: Filmfare seems to have removed its magazines from sale on Magzter. As regular readers of this blog (if there…
The Bombay underworld, is full of stories fit to be made into movies and they have been – lots of…
Came across this questionnaire for the Kohinoor Silk Condoms Maxim Sex Survey 2012. You may choose to take a print, fill it out and send it across (and Maxim may…Continue Reading →
The attention that The Indian Public Domain Project is getting in the mainstream media sometimes seems a little disproportionate to…
Today (January 12, 2012) is the 149th birth anniversary of one of India’s most revered philosophers and religious leaders. One…
Cartoonists in American newspapers during World War II didn’t seem have much regard for, or an understanding of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. This article from the August 24, 1942 issue of…Continue Reading →
Maxim claims to be the sexiest men’s magazine around and occasionally comes with with sexy ads promoting itself. Here’s a…
Suhagraat. The legendary Indian tradition where the newly-weds are left alone in a room for the first time, to do…
One day, in the comparatively innocent times that we grew up in, a friend announced, “I had oral sex.” I and another friend present were stupefied. We were still in…Continue Reading →
No one that I know got a raise this year and costs keep increasing. My landlord raised the rent, though…
[Readers who have not yet read the first issue the new weekly magazine Open, might not relate to some portions…
