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Doll housie diary

Published by Balakumar on October 10, 2013 | Leave a response

It’s Navarathri, which is that time of the year when we pause a bit, take a step back from our hectic office schedule, gather ourselves, and plunge headlong into the even more hectic schedule of visiting houses for the ubiquitous kolu I have already logged in more households-mileage in the last five days than a beat postman does in an… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged gifts for Navarathri. Humour, Navarathro Kolu, Sachin Tendulkar's hairstyle, Sachin Tendulkar's retirement, tradition kolu

Mera Naam Joke

Published by K Balakumar on October 4, 2013 | Leave a response

This week, I got to savour an honour that no other humour writer has presumably got before: A new film with my name in the title got released Was I thrilled? You bet. Let us face it, for all his prowess as a humour writer — arguably the best the world has ever seen —- good old Plum could have… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged Big names, Humour, Idharkuthaane Aasaipattaya Balakumara, Mera Naam Joke(r), Name trouble

Rahul drops another bombshell, terms his own behaviour as ‘complete nonsense’

Published by K Balakumar on September 28, 2013 | Leave a response

New Delhi: A day after he created a sensation by claiming the controversial ordinance on convicted legislators to be unacceptable, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, taking further control of the situation and charting a new course for his party, termed his own behaviour the day before to be ‘complete nonsense’. Rahul’s stunning damning of his own performance came at the… Read more →

Posted in Crank's News | Tagged Humour, Manish Tewari, Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Ordinance, Rahul Gandhi's criticism

Shall We Bell The President?

Published by K Balakumar on September 27, 2013 | Leave a response

As our apartment residents association goes to poll this week, I cannot but help point out here that our association shares many things with the government of India, chief of which being that our president and vice president too have no real role to perform. The election in our apartment complex is to pick a secretary, joint secretary, president, vice… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged Apartment complexes in Chennai, Humour, Indian Bureaucracy, Residents Association, Work of the President and the Vice President

MGR, Sivaji and Lakshman, the elephant

Published by K Balakumar on September 26, 2013 | Leave a response

Five memorable trivia from Tamil film industry Chennai: Chennai has just played host to a grand celebration of 100 years of Indian cinema with a series of spectacular functions, the highlight of which being many important awards that the film personalities thoughtfully presented to, well, themselves. The other talking point of the four-day extravaganza, which saw many special song, dance… Read more →

Posted in Crank's News | Tagged Famous trivia from Kollywood, History of Tamil film industry, Humour, Kollywood actresses and actors, Sivaji and MGR interesting information
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