I'm a teacher who tutors kids of classes I to V.
I've studied only up to class XII
I earn Rs 8,000 a month
I smoke small Gold Flakes, that too a packet of 10s a day with an occasional puff of Wills Navy Cut
I have been smoking for the last eight years and have become a 'regular' in the last four.
This isn't my CV, but the response sheet which a consumer survey guy filled up on my name and I was 'gifted' a set of glittering yellow bowls as a token of appreciation for my 'efforts.' The real me didn't fit their customer profile so he invented the aforementioned profile and pleaded me to repeat the same if asked by his superiors. I played along to see what happens next, only to find that all the respondents there were actually non small Gold Flake smokers masquerading as one - for half-a-dozen kitschy bowls - somehow persuaded by the 'researchers' so that they can achieve their respondent targets.
Nothing surprising. Surveys are often conducted in similar fashion. I have another set of green jars (but not as tawdry as the bowls) to prove my point. Besides, I too worked as a research investigator once. Hence, we should never take surveys, polls and similar gimmickry too seriously. And if the proposed slim ciggie set to take on small Gold Flake goes up in flakes, the company knows who to blame. By the way, does anyone want a set of six golden glass bowls, ideal for serving ice-cream, curd, custard etc? They can also double up as ashtrays.
And this blogger is again off to his favourite destination - home and hopes to keep on posting, albeit a little irregularly.
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It's official. Following the suspected splogging charges against me, I have finally been exonerated of all the charges. Here's the mail to this effect:
Re: [#544032] Non-spam review and verification request: http://soumyadipc.blogspot.com
Hello,
Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so that it will no longer appear as potential spam. If you sign out of Blogger and sign back in again, you should be able to post as normal. Thanks for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
Some less letters to type. That's a relief, but doesn't equal the one which thousands of undertrials across the country would get following the
amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).
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This is the twelfth and the last instalment in Season One of Vintage Indian Advertisements, which was exclusively sourced from the pages of Indrajal Comics (Courtesy: The Comic Project). Will attempt to bring in some more variety in Season Two (maybe some television commercials). What I intend to do is to develop an online freely accessible archive of Indian advertising. If anyone has some old and interesting ads to share, please do send them across at the email mentioned in the profile. Now to the ads:
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Chiclets
United Commercial Bank (UCO Bank)
View Master - Stereo Viewer
View Master - Stereo Viewer
Russian Postage Stamps
Russian Postage Stamps
Previous instalments of vintage Indian ads
First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Ninth | Tenth | Evelenth
Update: Season Two of Vintage Indian Advertisements can be accessed here
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Are the days of installing software onto the hard disks coming to an end? The signs strongly indicate in that direction. We've heard about (and some of us have also tried out) Google's Spreadsheets as an alternative to MS Excel. Now I found this - an alternative to Adobe Photoshop in the making, but still has a long way to go - Snipshot. It allows editing of huge images up to 10 MB or 5000X5000 pixels. You can import images from a website or your hard disk, save the images in different formats. Basic editing like crop, resize, rotate and other image adjustments. More features are promised to be on the way. And most importantly it is free and very easy (I edited the accompanying Snipshot logo using their online photo editing tool).
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The eleventh instalment:
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Amul's Nutramul (The Nutramul Dada is Jugal Hansraj)
Parry's
Parry's
Nutrine
Nutrine
Previous instalments of vintage Indian ads
First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Ninth | Tenth
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At least Blogger's spam-prevention "robots have detected that" this "blog has characteristics of a spam blog." But thankfully the rest of the text reads:
Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.
Before we can turn off mandatory word verification on your posts we'll need to have a human review your blog and verify that it is not a spam blog...
Curse those spammers, for their cheap tricks I now will have to type in an additional
yehou for this post to get published. Probably all those hyperlinks and the repetitive texts in my pet project -
Vintage Indian Advertisements are responsible. But can't possibly avoid doing that. Will have to live with additional keyboard tapping for some more time. Not much of a problem there and many many degrees lesser than those irritating spam blogs.
Read about
Blogger's spam fighting techniques.
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The tenth instalment:
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NP Dubble Bubble Gum
Chic-Modithread Children's Needlework Contest (To celebrate the International Year of the Child 1979)
Cadbury's Gems
Mysore Sandal Soap - Great Indian Heritage Contest
Amul's Nutramul
Previous instalments of vintage Indian ads
First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Ninth
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The ninth instalment:
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Morton Sweets
Leo Toys
Leo Toys
Liberty Luna Cameras
Life Insurance Corporation of India
Previous instalments of vintage Indian ads
First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth
Update: Season Two of Vintage Indian Advertisements can be accessed here
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The eighth instalment:
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Kissan Jam
Fevicol Synthetic Adhesive
Cadbury's Gems
Kissan Jam
Harnik Food Industries (The same one that manufactured those Phantom Cigarettes, an old favourite. I luxuriously smoked, rather sucked off uncountable packets. They had to change their logo from a Phantom lookalike to a pirate sort of thing. And doesn't the bigger kid resemble Rahul Dravid?)
Previous instalments of vintage Indian ads
First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh
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The seventh instalment:
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Central Bank of India
Click III Aim and Shoot Cameras
Ekco Sketch Pen
Duckback School Bags
Dipy's Squash
Previous instalments of vintage Indian ads
First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth
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"Lyrics today aren't poetry, just bad prose," rightly says Gulzar. If not for the prose, the latest issue of Outlook (June 26, 2006 Volume XLVI, No. 25) is a must buy for the melody in the 'free' Sa Re Ga Ma (previously HMV) CD accompanying the magazine. It features 10 select numbers to celebrate the 75 years of Hindi film songs.
Haven't read the magazine, but already listened to the songs for the umpteenth time. Who wouldn't, when the collection is something like:
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1. Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam
2. Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya
3. Jo Wada Kiya Woh Nibhana Padega
4. Poochho Na Kaise Maine
5. Man Re Tu Kahe Na Dheer Dhare
6. Tere Mere Sapne Ab Ek Rang Hain
7. Din Dhal Jaye Haye
8. Kuchh To Log Kahenge
9. Tum Jo Mil Gaye Ho
10. Dil Cheez Kya Hain
For Rs 20 it's more than worth it. My opinions on the observations on the views and observations in this issue of Outlook would find space in a later post.
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The sixth instalment:
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Amul Chocolates
Camel Instrument Box
Amul Chocolates
Bata Sandals
Canara Bank
Previous instalments of vintage Indian ads
First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth
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Here's the fifth instalment:
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Boroline
Blow Plast Limited - Arora-Hasbro Toys
Binaca Fluoride Toothpaste
Camel Water Colours and Poster Colours
Bata Coloured Canvas Range
Previous instalments of vintage Indian ads
First | Second | Third | Fourth
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Here's the fourth instalment:
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Gold Spot
Morton
Vicks Vaporub
Life Insurance Corporation of India
Nutrine Eclairs
Previous instalments of vintage Indian ads
First | Second | Third
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