The fifth edition of the calendar is also simple, no-frills and printable (A4) as the previous four and also includes Indian festivals and holidays (in concurrence with the official Government…Continue Reading →
It’s Mirza Ghalib‘s birthday today. And this is a photo from his portrait at the museum inside Delhi’s Red Fort.…
The year-end is the season of deals and discounts and my neighbourhood supermarket is also trying to lure shoppers with…
RG Blue Communications, a Pakistani advertising agency has created a humourous ad for Butterfly Sanitary Napkins with WikiLeaks as the peg. The ad came in the form of a hoarding/billboard…Continue Reading →
The first Bengali, as recorded, who came to Shillong was the successful trader Golam Haider, who was the supplier to…
This advertisement is from the January 28, 1950 edition of The Times of India (Delhi) and has the then Prime…
Suhagraat. The legendary Indian tradition where the newly-weds are left alone in a room for the first time, to do what newly-weds are expected to do. The marriage, according to…Continue Reading →
An association with Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) is what Google TV needs to be a success in India, that is…
It was Durga Puja (in Shillong it is puja and not pujo, even for the Bongs) and my two-year-old niece,…
Abhishek Bachchan delivered a string of 17 flops before his first hit and then gradually rose up the ladder to be amongst the reigning stars of Bollywood. But cricket isn’t…Continue Reading →
Never been much of a photographer. I think my brother is. Only that nowadays with two kids (and a wife)…
Today is Mahalaya, the day of invocation of goddess Durga in her Mahisasurmardini form (the slayer of the demon Mahisasur).…
