Google’s website on civil rights movement practises discrimination
You just cannot miss the irony trying to access Google’s website on the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr’s historic “I have a dream” speech on a web…Continue Reading →
Ad from 1982: Pan Parag with Jalal Agha and Kalpana Iyer (and why I can’t ever forget Jalal’s name)
It has happened to the best of quizzards and I was far from being anywhere close to the best. The…
Narendra Modi (and others) got it wrong. Rupee wasn’t equal to the dollar in 1947
This ‘fact’ like so many others had been flooding my timeline for long and when the wannabe-PM Narendra Modi also…
Trespassers will be shot. And…
A sign for the times.Continue Reading →
Download for free: 40 HarperCollins India ebooks on Google Play
Disclosure: I am an ebook evangelist. Update 2: As expected, Google and HarperCollins India seems to have been alerted of…
Kishore Kumar: Childhood and first wedding photos
Who is the greatest playback singer of Hindi cinema? The debate was raging from much before I was born (and…
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag: The actual newspaper headlines in September 1960 were quite different
Indians would have surely been disappointed by Milkha Singh’s legendary defeat in the 400 metres final at the 1960 Rome Olympics, but did the disappointment turn into actual anger as…Continue Reading →
100 Years of Indian Cinema: India Post’s 50 commemorative stamps
[This post is part of the 100 Years of Indian Cinema celebrations on Cutting the Chai] In May this year…
Sunny Leone in Viiking XXX energy mix surrogate ad
Sunny Leone has successfully transited from mainstream pornography to mainstream Bollywood celebrityhood. With films and product endorsements, this Punjabi kudi…
Pran (1920-2013) – a hero of a villain: Unofficial Google doodle
The obits call him Bollywood’s most feared villain. Not for me. To me Pran Saheb was the most hero-like of all the villains of Hindi cinema. By hero-like I don’t…Continue Reading →
Why what’s trending on Twitter in India is largely inconsequential
Now that the mainstream Indian media has discovered the wonders of the Internet, anything that is remotely out of the…
NO TELEGRAM FROM JULY 15 STOP VINTAGE TELEGRAM FORM FROM PRE-INDEPENDENCE INDIA STOP
The last telegram in India can be sent on July 14. From July 15 BSNL which operates the telegram services…
