Crank’s News brings you a round-up from ground zero (zero being our understanding of what is happening around) Chennai, May 9: Tamil Nadu is in the final lap of what has been a no-holds-barred election campaign, and with just a week to go for the polls, the situation is, in the classic words of political commentators, ‘too close to call’,… Read more →
That the triumph of little-known Leicester City Football Club (LCFC) in the EPL (English Premier League) early this week was front-page news in most Indian dailies proves two important sporting facts: 1) The victory of underdog has a universal appeal. 2) More importantly, this year’s IPL has been a bore-fest. I mean if the previous night’s IPL contest had been… Read more →
When I read the news that Chief Justice T S Thakur got emotional and cried on a public platform over the delay in the appointments of judges to the courts, I, as a sensitive, sensible and concerned citizen of the country, too was almost moved to break out into an extreme guffaw. But first a backgrounder: For those of you… Read more →
I see no political party in poll-bound Tamil Nadu has chosen to address the chief social menace that the State is reeling under for the last two-three years. I am, as you would have likely guessed, referring to the problem of ghost movies, generally known in the circles as ‘horror films’. We have now reached a stage where every third… Read more →
Looking back on the incident in which a CISF personnel picked me out from a long queue for extra security check at the Chennai airport last week, I should confess that the mistake was entirely mine: I did not speak or understand Hindi. This may be Tamil Nadu. And I am a complete Tamilian. Still, it was extremely unreasonable on… Read more →
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