Lok Sabha TV to go HD #Crank’s News New Delhi: In what seems like a major assertion of Parliamentary supremacy, privilege notices are expected to be slapped on the terrorists who triggered the blasts in New Delhi on Wednesday when Parliament was in session. According to highly placed sources in the Lok Sabha Secretariat, many members of the House, cutting… Read more →
Two statistical research findings caught my eye recently: 1) More books are being printed and sold now than ever 2) Book reading habit has come down drastically. The unavoidable literary conclusion that flows out of the above is: 1) Hahahahahahahaha. Seriously, if more books are being bought, how can the percentage of those reading books come down? It can, if… Read more →
The Lok Pal debate has thrown up three important groups: The politicos, Team Anna Hazare and the pro-reformist liberals who are for maintaining the sanctity of institutions and existing rules. But Cranks Corner belongs to a fourth group, which believes that it is alright to make fun of all the three, because in a true democracy the joke is on… Read more →
Also: The all important tip to Anna Hazare The Indian cricket team has just been handed one of its most humiliating defeats ever by England, which swept the four match Test series 4-0. Here at Crank’s News we have managed to scoop some of the jottings from the diary of the coach Duncan Fletcher over the tours of West Indies… Read more →
Recently I, by accident, happened to be in a group that got discussing painters, musicians and sculptors of classical vintage. Plenty of words that are not generally featured in household dictionaries were bandied about, while I, clueless and helpless, looked on, not unlike Azhagiri during a parliamentary debate. It was then I decided that this predicament should not befall others… Read more →
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