Read this post on the website: RK Laxman – the unofficial Google doodle
RK Laxman, India’s best-known cartoonist, died on January 26, 2015. He was 93. I had the opportunity to meet the legendary cartoonist once, as a student in Bhopal, but I (and we all) knew him best through his cartoons. Cutting the Chai pays tribute to the man, in the form of an unofficial Google doodle. […]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: 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 unofficial Google doodle pays tribute to the Indians who put in their best to uphold the principles of democracy in the dark days of the Emergency. The doodle draws its obvious inspiration from the iconic [Read more]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: New WhatsApp Status: This is going to be *BIG!*
New features in popular services often rake up rancour. I have also grumbled a lot against certain changes. But then with time and familiarity that resentment reduces and we start to dig the very feature that we detested at launch. The same is true for the just-released updated WhatsApp Status, WhatsApp’s return gift to us [Read more]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: Did Vivekananda say ‘Sisters and Brothers of America’? Fact checking a fact check
Also a list of the other participants from India at the 1893 Parliament of World's Religions at Chicago. There were at least 15, including Vivekananda.
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: Et tu, Dadamoni? How Ashok Kumar fell from grace in Suraiya’s eyes
There are a lot of distractions while reading eBooks on the phone and Twitter is one. As I was swiping through the pages of Raju Bharatan’s A Journey Down Melody Lane: The Making of a Hindi Film Song on my phone, I occasionally switched to the Twitter app to follow what’s tweeting. In a strange […]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: Filmfare magazine cover dated April 2, 1954 featuring the first Filmfare Award winners
60 years ago on Sunday, March 31, 1954 the first Filmfare Awards ceremony (for films released in 1952-53) was held at Bombay’s Metro Cinema and the subsequent issue of the fortnightly film magazine (dated April 2, 1954) had on its cover three of the winners from the night posing with their trophies. On the cover […]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: The unofficial Khushwant Singh Google doodle
This is from a few days ago when the man whose pen wore no condom fell one short of a century. The unofficial Khushwant Singh Google doodle. And an animated GIF tribute to the ‘Sardar in the Lightbulb’ that I created suring my day job at IBNLive.
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: 25 world newspaper front pages with Narendra Modi and BJP’s victory headlines
The elections in the world’s largest democracy (that is also a prominent emerging economy) is obviously an item of importance in the world media. Here’s a snapshot of how newspapers around the world covered the news of Narendra Modi and BJP’s emphatic victory in the elections to the 16th Lok Sabha. Modi might have won […]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: RK Laxman – the unofficial Google doodle
RK Laxman, India’s best-known cartoonist, died on January 26, 2015. He was 93. I had the opportunity to meet the legendary cartoonist once, as a student in Bhopal, but I (and we all) knew him best through his cartoons. Cutting the Chai pays tribute to the man, in the form of an unofficial Google doodle. […]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: 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 unofficial Google doodle pays tribute to the Indians who put in their best to uphold the principles of democracy in the dark days of the Emergency. The doodle draws its obvious inspiration from the iconic […]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: New WhatsApp Status: This is going to be *BIG!*
New features in popular services often rake up rancour. I have also grumbled a lot against certain changes. But then with time and familiarity that resentment reduces and we start to dig the very feature that we detested at launch. The same is true for the just-released updated WhatsApp Status, WhatsApp’s return gift to us […]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: Did Vivekananda say ‘Sisters and Brothers of America’? Fact checking a fact check
Also a list of the other participants from India at the 1893 Parliament of World's Religions at Chicago. There were at least 15, including Vivekananda.
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: The Deewaar of Aadhaar
The 'deewaar' of Aadhaar has people on both sides of the wall (and also many sitting on it)
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: PNB Scam: Kitnay aadmi thay?
Another attempt at reimagining iconic Bollywood scenes as a critique of contemporary issues in a comic book format.
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: Et tu, Dadamoni? How Ashok Kumar fell from grace in Suraiya’s eyes
There are a lot of distractions while reading eBooks on the phone and Twitter is one. As I was swiping through the pages of Raju Bharatan’s A Journey Down Melody Lane: The Making of a Hindi Film Song on my phone, I occasionally switched to the Twitter app to follow what’s tweeting. In a strange […]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: Filmfare magazine cover dated April 2, 1954 featuring the first Filmfare Award winners
60 years ago on Sunday, March 31, 1954 the first Filmfare Awards ceremony (for films released in 1952-53) was held at Bombay’s Metro Cinema and the subsequent issue of the fortnightly film magazine (dated April 2, 1954) had on its cover three of the winners from the night posing with their trophies. On the cover […]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: The unofficial Khushwant Singh Google doodle
This is from a few days ago when the man whose pen wore no condom fell one short of a century. The unofficial Khushwant Singh Google doodle. And an animated GIF tribute to the ‘Sardar in the Lightbulb’ that I created suring my day job at IBNLive.
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: 25 world newspaper front pages with Narendra Modi and BJP’s victory headlines
The elections in the world’s largest democracy (that is also a prominent emerging economy) is obviously an item of importance in the world media. Here’s a snapshot of how newspapers around the world covered the news of Narendra Modi and BJP’s emphatic victory in the elections to the 16th Lok Sabha. Modi might have won […]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: RK Laxman – the unofficial Google doodle
RK Laxman, India’s best-known cartoonist, died on January 26, 2015. He was 93. I had the opportunity to meet the legendary cartoonist once, as a student in Bhopal, but I (and we all) knew him best through his cartoons. Cutting the Chai pays tribute to the man, in the form of an unofficial Google doodle. […]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury
Read this post on the website: 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 unofficial Google doodle pays tribute to the Indians who put in their best to uphold the principles of democracy in the dark days of the Emergency. The doodle draws its obvious inspiration from the iconic […]
Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Since 2005. By Soumyadip Choudhury