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Ad from 1982: Pan Parag with Jalal Agha and Kalpana Iyer (and why I can’t ever forget Jalal’s name) 22 Aug 2013 | 07:35 am
Read this post on the website: 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 an...
Narendra Modi (and others) got it wrong. Rupee wasn’t equal to the dollar in 1947 20 Aug 2013 | 06:49 pm
Read this post on the website: 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 wa...
Trespassers will be shot. And… 9 Aug 2013 | 07:38 am
Read this post on the website: Trespassers will be shot. And… A sign for the times. Cutting the Chai - India's original potpourri blog. Bringing to you vintage Indian ads, tech, movies and more sinc...
Download for free: 39 HarperCollins India ebooks on Google Play 5 Aug 2013 | 08:35 am
Read this post on the website: Download for free: 39 HarperCollins India ebooks on Google Play Disclosure: I am an ebook evangelist. There are tons of free ebooks available on the online bookstores, ...
Kishore Kumar: Childhood and first wedding photos 3 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
Read this post on the website: 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 is still o...
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag: The actual newspaper headlines in September 1960 were quite different 21 Jul 2013 | 08:53 am
Read this post on the website: 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...
100 Years of Indian Cinema: India Post’s 50 commemorative stamps 18 Jul 2013 | 08:16 am
Read this post on the website: 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 15 Jul 2013 | 07:43 am
Read this post on the website: Sunny Leone in Viiking XXX energy mix surrogate ad Sunny Leone has successfully transited from mainstream pornography to mainstream Bollywood celebrityhood. With films ...
Pran (1920-2013) – a hero of a villain: Unofficial Google doodle 13 Jul 2013 | 07:44 am
Read this post on the website: 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...
Why what’s trending on Twitter in India is largely inconsequential 19 Jun 2013 | 01:18 pm
Read this post on the website: 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 rem...
