Raja Harishchandra 3D story in Amar Ujala
The Hindi daily Amar Ujala (April 23, 2012) carried a home page anchor story on Cutting the Chai making Raja Harishchandra 3D 99 years after its first screening. Ravi Buleiy’s…Continue Reading →
Great ads, Michelangelo’s David’s penis and The Times of India
To celebrate its 153 years of existence, the Old Lady of Bori Bunder published a Lintas created advertisement that many,…
India Public Domain Movie Project in the Sunday Mid Day
The recently launched India Public Domain Movie Project is getting some much needed publicity. Today’s Sunday Mid Day has a…
Ad from 1979: Look, that’s Rekha with a Lakme face
Apart from a few Lakme ads an the Lux ads, that is almost mandatory for any Bollywood actress of note to feature in, I haven’t seen the enigmatic Rekha in…Continue Reading →
When @MasalaBai got @PoojaB1972’s goat
Work for me is fun, more so with colleagues like @MasalaBai (Rituparna Chatterjee) around. So today following the news of…
Opening a third front in the Times of India vs Hindu ad battle
As The Times of India versus The Hindu advertising battle rages on, Cutting the Chai thought it was about time…
When India became a republic: Front page of The Indian Express (January 28, 1950)
There’s a difference in knowing from a history book and learning via a historical source. Accounts from a time when an historical event happened and later day interpretations by historians…Continue Reading →
Audio recording of Swami Vivekananda’s 1893 Chicago address is fake
Today (January 12, 2012) is the 149th birth anniversary of one of India’s most revered philosophers and religious leaders. One…
How to easily get unflattering content removed from a website
Some of you have enquired about why the post on Dolly Bindra on Fantasy magazine cover suddenly disappeared from the…
For American cartoonists in WWII era Gandhi was a fool and a traitor
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 →
How Maxim maidens bowl the men over
Maxim claims to be the sexiest men’s magazine around and occasionally comes with with sexy ads promoting itself. Here’s a…
The day BSA SLR helped Kapil Dev fly high
In the 1980s, Kapil Dev was India’s hottest cricket sensation. Leading India to win the World Cup immediately gave the…
