Most sports, except perhaps golf, which is less sport but more a cleverly disguised VRS scheme, lend themselves to films. I got thinking about sports and movies this week when Irudhi Sutru (Saala Khadoos), a movie around boxing and whether a honest-to-goodness underdog manages to outwit a top gun or not (oh, you can never guess the ending of a… Read more →
Literary Festivals, or to use its imaginative intellectual abbreviation Lit Fests, are the biggest things in the media scene these days. As ever, Crank’s Corner gives you a lucid lowdown on what they are and what it takes to conduct them: What is a literary festival? Lit Fests are cerebral events where writers, experts, thinkers, intellectuals and Shobhaa De gather… Read more →
(This is from the diary of my trip to Alanganallur Jallikattu more than two decades back) We, my friend Kesavan and I, arrived at Alanganallur, which if I were writing a travel feature in a glossy magazine would describe as, ‘beautifully bucolic, filled with people full of old-world ethos and rustic charm’, but in every-day language it will translate to… Read more →
Without sounding boastful, I would say that I pretty much fancy my chances against Stan Wawrinka on the field of play with a tennis ball. Okay, for the sake of clarity, I need to mention that the game I have in mind is cricket, which, as evidenced by Stan’s show at the Chennai Open this week, he has absolutely no… Read more →
The only thing that enjoys any amount of credibility in newspapers these days is the zodiac column, which is totally made up. Here we present predictions for the year ahead, which we expect to be completely random, exactly the way we have gone about this task. Aquarius (Jan 20 – Feb 18) It will be a mixed year for Aquarians… Read more →
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