Happy Holi!
Holi is a festival of fun and frolic (and double entendre?)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…
From toddler to The Wall: A photographic tribute to Rahul Dravid
You may have seen the photos below elsewhere on the Internet, but it was on Cutting the Chai were they…
Need directions? Pay up
Perhaps bugged by incessant queries from lost people a roadside tyre puncture repair shop near the L Block Market, Sector 11, Noida has put up a board that says, “रास्ता…Continue Reading →
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…
10 minutes to 10
At Surajkund Fair, Faridabad, Haryana on February 4, 2011. It was sometime in the afternoon, the clock wasn’t showing the…
Boom (2003): A treasure trove of celebrity childhood photos
कीचड़ में ही कमल खिलते हैं (Kichad mein hi kamal khilte hain) Out of the mud, the lovely lotus blooms Not too many would’ve seen Kaizad Gustad’s 2003 debacle, Boom,…Continue Reading →
Husn Bewafa – Lust of Beauty…
Pleasantly surprised to find these posters in the neighbourhood. Sex in mainstream cinema has hit this genre hard but they…
View from the Balcony on a Full Moon Night
The winds blow a lot stronger, the rain hits a lot harder, the lift takes a lot longer but the…
The Topless Beauty and the Beasts
For obvious reasons this statue was quite popular with men (and also some women) at Surajkund Fair this year. Men just cannot resist mammaries. Some lechers were also trying out…Continue Reading →
When Indra Came Down Upon the Comic Con
On the second day of the first ever Indian Comic Con, the heavens opened up, complete with a minor storm…
Mirza Asad-Ullah Khan ‘Ghalib’
It’s Mirza Ghalib‘s birthday today. And this is a photo from his portrait at the museum inside Delhi’s Red Fort.…
