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Pratibha and my fantasy league

Published by K Balakumar on June 17, 2011 | Leave a response

I have a daily fantasy. And that involves Pratibha Patil. NO! Not that one, you dirty mind. Each day, when I get back from work, I think of Pratibha and pity her.  Because her job doesn’t allow for any formal relaxation. Because how do you relax when you’re already relaxing? As far as I can see, her only job is… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged Details of Third Umpire, DJs, Fantasy Jobs, Humour, Pratibha's fantasy, Suhel Seth as Expert, VJ< RJ

Crank’s News: Success of Salman’s Ready to chasten film critics

Published by K Balakumar on June 16, 2011 | Leave a response

‘Henceforth They Will Watch Movies, But Won’t Review Them’ Mumbai/Chennai: For all those forever complaining that nothing good ever comes out of a Salman Khan movie, here is a news that will make you think otherwise. The pointless potboiler film Ready, which has been declared a hit despite receiving severe flak from learned critics, seems to have driven home the… Read more →

Posted in Crank's News | Tagged Art of Film Reviewing, Film Trade Analysis, Humour, Ready and Asin, Success of Salman Khan, Tamil and Hindi Film Reviews

Morkel and my marriage

Published by K Balakumar on June 10, 2011 | Leave a response

What makes a marriage work? This is a question that has kept humans busy, especially those humans employed at the Cosmopolitan magazine, because almost every third issue of it you have articles of the kind: ‘30 secrets for a successful marriage’ ’72 ways to keep your spouse happy without using the credit card’ ‘108 ideas to kill your in-laws and… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged Albie Morkel and CSK, GPRS and cell phones, Humour, India vs England at Lords, Secret of a successful marriage

Crank’s News: Secret rly station at Minister’s house

Published by K Balakumar on June 9, 2011 | 1 Response

CBI looking for proof that he is a Minister New Delhi: Close on the heels of the revelation that the State-owned BSNL had a state-of-the-art telephone exchange running surreptitiously at the residence of Marans, comes the expose that a full-fledged railway station was stealthily operational at another Union Minister’s farmhouse. Highly placed sources in the CBI today confirmed that the… Read more →

Posted in Crank's News | Tagged Humour, Marans' Telephone Exchange, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Cabinet, RSS and Digvijay Singh, Union Minister Azhagiri

Design is by default

Published by K Balakumar on June 3, 2011 | Leave a response

I wear Tag Heuer spectacles to office daily. The beauty of the ridiculously expensive designer stuff is that nobody notices it unless you desperately call attention to it (like putting them in the first line of an article). My conversations with colleagues, therefore, fall into this general pattern: Colleague: You are feeling sleepy, even though it’s just 11 in the… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged Attar, Designer Lablels, Expensive Perfume, Gucci and Jimmy Choo, Humour, Rolex Watches, Udit Narayan's Tamil songs
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