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Spot of Sharukh

Published by K Balakumar on June 11, 2016 | Leave a response

After a vacation to a chilly hill station, every one comes back with an incident that they wouldn’t want others to know.  Mine is: I mounted Sri Devi. But give me a few seconds, there is an innocent and reasonable explanation to it. One is, as is it usually happens in such cases — here I can only speak for… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged Chennai Express and Munnar, Humour, Kerala tourism, mounting Sri Devi, trip to Munnar

In the Doc!

Published by K Balakumar on June 3, 2016 | Leave a response

Last week I went for an eye checkup.  I get this annual eye test done every four or five years. Left to myself, I will have this annual test once a decade or some such. For, I hate this drops-administered dilation of pupils after which for the rest of that night everything looks bright at the edges and splotchy in… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged doctor's tests, Humour, Ophthalmologist tests, optic nerve and eye doctors, Why doctors ask for medical reports

DIY: New-age guru

Published by K Balakumar on June 1, 2016 | Leave a response

Your guide to a high-flying career with lot of perks including never having to comb yourself even once Chennai: As the examination results are out, we get down to career counselling. And today we will find out what it takes to get into that one career, which is without doubt one of the most lucrative, outside of organised mafia and… Read more →

Posted in Crank's News | Tagged Humour

Thunder Down Under

Published by K Balakumar on May 27, 2016 | Leave a response

I hope the critics who constantly carp that this column does not take up matters of serious substance will be happy with the choice of subject this week: Men’s underwear. That it is an important topic that I should write about became apparent to me when a shop assistant in a dress mart that I had gone to buy a… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged chequed underwear, Humour, Men's underwear, Men's Underwear brand, Sudarmani jettis

Let’s put vote da

Published by K Balakumar on May 13, 2016 | Leave a response

Looks like just the other day we were discussing the relative merits of the various candidates in the constituencies and how all of them seemed absolute twerps, and this week we have reached a stage where we have to go out and vote for one of them. The choice before lay voters is only two a)  Get cynical, choose not… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged EC and NOTA, Humour, TN polls 2016
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