Shankar welcomes the stay, saying it will help maintain secrecy of film Chennai: In an interesting, but inevitable turn of events, the Madras High Court today, suo motu, ordered interim stay on the release of director Shankar and actor Vikram’s film I and issued notices to the State police to investigate and bring to light ‘within seven working days’ any… Read more →
When I first came across the news that Tarun Tejpal, who allegedly molested a young colleague of his, had been invited as a panelist to the Times Litfest, I, like any normal thinking person, was aghast. I mean how can they put Times and Literary in the same sentence and expect us not to feel outraged. The Old Lady of… Read more →
A lot of readers have sent questions on the functioning of banks and sought some clarifications because this column has rightly earned a name for itself in handling important issues of the day (Friday) with the much-needed clarity to trivialize them. Over to your queries: Recently banks have decided to put a ‘cap’ on the number of withdrawals from ATMs… Read more →
Last Saturday night, shortly after the news had broken out that a tiger had escaped from its enclosure in Vandalur zoo, I checked in to my twitter feed, and the social media platform, sustained as it is by the wisdom of many, manfully rose to the occasion with an emergency supply of jokes and puns. Someone said (to the effect)… Read more →
Accept it, you don’t follow chess because as a sport it is complex and cerebral, something that demands a lot from you especially because you don’t even know what exactly cerebral means. The ongoing World Chess Championship at Sochi —- between India’s old warhorse Vishwanathan Anand, the five-time former world champion but the undisputed reigning brand ambassador of Crocin, and… Read more →
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