An ideal boy

Ideal Boy, An: Charts from India
by Sirish Rao, V. Geetha, Gita Wolf (Editors)
Dewi Lewis Publishing
2001, 120 pages, 6.9 x 1.0 x 9.4 inches, Hardcover
$7 Buy on Amazon

A book with visual charts as educational aids in India.

First thought? Why boy? Than I thought, okay we live in a fake male dominant world. So I scrolled down. 'Improvement of the cooking'? 'Home science - Cooking and utensils'? 'Nail polish', 'Hair pin' and 'ribbon' (Usefull Articles). Now I'm confused. Also because of the cover of the book. A boy and a girl.

But ofcourse one of the most important good habits of an ideal boy (do they exist by the way?) is taking lost children to the police post.

Illustrations are nice :)

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Penguinstagram

Penguinstagram — by Penguin Books, India — invokes readers to capture choice quotes from literature in the form of pictures.

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Kitchen Knife

Wonderful!

Wangs Kitchen, run by Oriental Cuisines Pvt. Ltd in Chennai and Hyderabad, India, used posters with razor sharp knives to promote their home delivery service as well as increase the number of call-ins.

The Knife campaign was developed at Fingerprints, Chennai, by creative director Karan Daswani, art director Vinayak Vohra and designer Venkit Kumar.

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Technology To Create Magic

TEDTalk by Shilo Shiv Suleman.

Has our technology -- our cell phones and iPods and cameras -- stopped us from dreaming? Young artist Shilo Shiv Suleman says no, as she demos "Khoya," her new storybook for iPad, which floats us through a magical world in 7 minutes of pure creativity.

Nokia Lumia Presents Mumbai

It's 'Amazing'

Tanjore - “The Web Is What You Make Of It”

A nice Google commercial.

Inspired by the real story of G. Rajendran, an artist from Tamil Nadu (Southern India) who used the web to bring the dying art of "Tanjore" paintings back to life and became a successful businessman in the process. The art is supposed to have originated in 1600 A.D and is an important part of the local social and cultural heritage.

Convents Of India

Convents of India photographed by Percy Dean.

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Warriors Of Goja = Indian Madness

Warriors of Goja at a Indian talent show. OMG. At the end of the video I was standing at the other side of the room. This is MADNESS!!!!!!!

Bollywood Goes Sci-Fi

"Bollywood superhero flick Ra.One is like Tron with dance numbers and crotch punches".

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The Core Of India

India explained in 3 minutes by Kashyap Bhatia. Can't this person do this for every country?

 

The Colorful Remains Of Over The Top Indian Weddings

Beautiful photography by Indian photographer Mahesh Shantaram.

"Mahesh Shantaram is an independent art-documentary photographer based in Bangalore, India. His main area of interest lies in visual representations of modern India minus all the nostalgic fluff, often celebrating the everyday, the mundane, and the leftovers when all the exotic has been consumed or left to dry.

This series, Matrimania, takes a look at the mess that people leave behind at weddings."

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Cheapest Car Goes Expensive

A model of the world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano from India, has been encrusted in gold, silver and jewels and is now worth $4.4 million. Wow! Bling bling!

 

The Dentist Of Jaipur

He's right. Who needs fancy equipment.

"The Dentist Of Jaipur"

New teeth, dentures or extractions not a problem at all for Pushkar and his old master Pyara Singh. They treat their patients in front of the train station of Jaipur, on the sidewalk under the pure sky. The short film of filmmaker Falk Peplinski, who has been living in India for three years, is an ironical image-clip for a dentist of its own kind and therefore a homage to the incredibleness of the Indian everyday life. The film had a big success at fimfestivals in 2006 and 2007.

India, 2006 / director & editor: Falk Peplinski, photography: Karsten Hohmann, sound: Valson P.D., producer : Meera Menezes

A Child Or A Tata Nano?

Thanks Christiaan!!!!

"According to a 2011 census, India has a population of 1,210,193,422 people. That's 17.47 percent of the world's population living on just 2.3 percent of the planet. The only place more crowded is a new In-N-Out at lunch time. Health officials in India are looking for novel ways to drum up interest in sterilization clinics, and one in particular has resorted to prize giveaways. The top draw? A new Tata Nano." But you can also kitchen stand mixers.

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Nyan Cat (Indian Bollywood Version)

Well done.

Nyan cat transforms to Indian cat and run through the Taj Mahal.

Ghandi's Glasses

"The Gandhi Font

Leo Burnett Mumbai recently designed a set of fonts to celebrate the 141st anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, (October 2, 2010) using the Indian leader’s spectacles for inspiration. Typographers used Gandhi’s iconic glasses as the basis of a new Devanagari font, before moving on to English and nine other Indian scripts, with the results free to download online at gandhijifont. The exercise was designed to trigger the imagination of the youth towards Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings. The font has been made available for free download on dozens of social media websites."

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Bollywood Mud-Flaps

A beautiful collection of Bollywood Mud-Flaps. It was difficult to make a selection.

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Mumbai Golf

Caddies from an upscale golf club in Mumbai, India, created a version of the game using handmade equipment and a course that winds through the streets and slums.

An ESPN E:60 short TV doc on Golf in India. Produced by Yaron Deskalo, ESPN. Filmed & Edited by Evolve Digital Cinema.

Mumbai Golf - ESPN E:60 from Evolve IMG Films Ltd. on Vimeo.

The Supernatural Revealed

The supernatural revealed in india.

Question Mark

Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan: Question Mark.

“37% of Indians live in poverty which puts a question mark on their future. Donate Today.”

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