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Stand-up comedian Vir Das opens his new Netflix show, ‘Vir Das for India’, with a visceral love-hate for Chyawanprash! ___ “If you want to experience our country, you have the taste our country. Therefore the first thing you must put in your…
I have a feeling I have been seeing a LOT of news about Vakrangee in the past one week. It was on 28th January (Tuesday), and again, today, in ET. Also on January 29th, in Moneycontrol. The interesting connecting point between all…
Google’s new Super Bowl film is a poignant affair. Watch it first. What I found fascinating is not the emotional current per se; that is very, very well done, of course, in true Google style (made in-house). You can’t help but feel…
In August last year, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) of UK banned 2 TV advertisements made for Philadelphia, the Mondelez-owned cream cheese brand and Volkswagen. The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) offers guidance to ASA. Using the CAP guidelines, people could complain…
I have referred to the UX of a banana reasonably often on Twitter. But I think I have not said enough, in context. I have a very special admiration for the whole of the banana species given how extraordinarily it puts itself…
An elegant solution to a very, very common problem even in India. This is by the agency CJ WORX (Bangkok), Thailand, for their client, Thai Health Promotion Foundation. To an extent, the idea to create a new spoon, and expect us to…
On January 22nd, Big Bazaar released full-page (and front-page) ads in The Times of India for their Republic Day sale. It was a multi-edition advertising blitzkrieg as usual, but some of the nuances are worth observing and pondering about. I opened my…