The Chennai Open tennis tournament got underway this week. This is the 21st year of the tournament that is, well, 22-years-old. The thing is Chennai has been hosting this tournament from 1997 only. But the organisers, in a typical marketing hard-sell, which in normal language would be lying, billed the 2015 year’s event as the 20th edition. They did so… Read more →
(This is the second part of the Year-In-Review 2016) (The consolidated two parts can be found here: Year-In-Review 2016 I and II) In a bid to ease up the pressure on May, RBI introduces into the market… June Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposes to Finance Ministry a far-reaching proposal to tackle the galloping inflation. His suggestion is simple but most… Read more →
When you look back on 2016, you have to agree that in the overall scheme of things that it was a pretty decent year. No, just pause. As I type this, there is a new press release from the Reserve Bank of India saying that the year 2016 may actually be bad and things aren’t as good as they look…. Read more →
There is a buzz in the air whenever there is a Test match at the M A Chidambaram stadium. This time around, when India and England are fighting it out, air is in the buzz, as cyclone Vardah has turned things upside down in these parts. Ahead of the match, England sweated it out on whether Stuart Broad will be… Read more →
Will you be writing your regular column this week? Wouldn’t humour be a little inappropriate to the current mood of Tamil Nadu? A well-meaning friend asked me this during a chat. This existential query stared me in the face last year too, when much of the city went under flood waters which caused huge destruction to both lives and livelihoods…. Read more →
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