Archived Title Image No. 10
Some readers found this title image a little distasteful and asked me to take it off. Keeping their sensibilities in mind I’m putting a new one up. Anyway it’s been…Continue Reading →
In Focus
Was a little preoccupied all these days and couldn’t visit blogadesh. As things settle down on the professional front, issues…
Shifting Gears
I lasted in my first job for two years two-and-a-half months. This time I’m changing my official address in exactly…
Only Vivian
A 1986 Only Vimal ad featuring the cricketer for whom the word swashbuckling was perhaps coined – Viv Richards, or more appropriately Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, one of the…Continue Reading →
The Real Parliament Attackers Revealed
December 13, 2001. The Indian Parliament is attacked. A dozen dead, including the attackers. Massive deployment of soldiers by India…
Rubbers of India – II
Boing Boing termed my earlier post on Indian condoms ‘bottomless.’ Now researchers have ‘discovered’ that condoms “made according to international…
Whacky Shift
Why does it have to be this way, always? And illogically enough it works. Since last afternoon my keyboard was acting funny. The problem was with a combination of the…Continue Reading →
Why Letters Reach Late
Please don’t blame India Post.
The Real Taste of Life
Some ads have the potential to brighten up a dull day. For some a bar of chocolate is enough. Chocolate…
Ting Ting Ti-Ting
Acoustic branding at its best. Wherever we hear that distinctive “Ting ting ti-ting,” we invariably think Britannia. Louis Banks, the man who created it, says, “Well, I always say that…Continue Reading →
The Better Side of Photography
“I’m going to tell you a secret: Glamour photography is hypocrisy. It’s a subtle, sophisticated, suave, creative, legal, socially, and…
Call Center Cabs to the Rescue
The name National Capital Region (different from NCT) seems to exist only on paper and for the mobile phone networks.…
