The Bollywood periodic table
London-based designer Johnny Joannou has a thing for the periodic table. His long series of designs based on the chemisty periodic table of elements covers a wide range of sports…Continue Reading →
Watch: High excitement on the streets of New Delhi on August 15, 1947
This edition of the Movietone News from August 1947 captures the high excitement on the streets of New Delhi (complete…
एक कहानी, बस यूं ही (भाग तीन)
(Continued from here) स्थान – जयपुर, उस लड़की का घर, रात का वक्त। चियर्स चियर्स… मस्त पार्टी है यार। कब…
APJ Abdul Kalam: The unofficial Google doodle
The ‘People’s President’ Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam died of a heart attack in my hometown Shillong. He was 83. A blackboard sketch featuring his signature hairstyle and the different…Continue Reading →
एक कहानी, बस यूं ही (भाग दो)
(Continued from here) गुलज़ार के गाने आज भी जब भी सुनता हूँ। तुम्हारा साथ याद आ जाता है। तुम्हारा गुनगुनाता…
एक कहानी, बस यूं ही
An isspecial cutting chai to mark 10 years of Cutting the Chai specially brewed by the Chaiwali, Varsha Choudhury. A…
Listen: Indira Gandhi announcing the Emergency on All India Radio, June 26, 1975
President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the ‘Proclamation of Emergency‘ on the night of June 25, 1975, but it was in the morning of June 26 that the nation got to…Continue Reading →
40th anniversary of Emergency: The unofficial Google doodle
(This post is a part of a series on the 40th anniversary of the imposition of Emergency in India) This…
Proclamation of Emergency, as published in The Gazette of India 40 years ago
(This is the first in a series of posts on 40 years of Emergency) 40 years ago on June 25,…
International Day of Yoga: The unofficial (animated) Google doodle
Noticed some people lamenting on social media about the absence of a Google doodle to mark the first International Day of Yoga (Google celebrated Father’s Day instead). A day late,…Continue Reading →
The best of Charles Correa (1930-2015)
Goodbye! Charles Correa (1930-2015), one of India’s finest architects and urban planners. Some of his best works captured within an…
Whether it is tea or sex, consent is everything
Sex is great. More people should have more sex. But only when it is consensual. The problem is many people…
