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Sting in the tale

Published by K Balakumar on March 15, 2013 | Leave a response

For you lay people the recent revelations about money laundering by some banks may be just another expose. But only we journalists can fully understand and appreciate the enormous odds that the guys at Cobra Post have had to overcome, especially the one of having to work for a media organisation with the most ridiculous name ever.  To come up… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged banking deals, Banks exposed by Cobra Post, Cobra Post expose, funding for Cobra Post, Humour

Presenting the past

Published by K Balakumar on March 8, 2013 | Leave a response

This being a piece to go with the International Women’s Day, the first question that resonated in my mind was should I outsource this week’s column to my wife. One advantage of letting my wife handle the piece would be I can have more time to finish that hard-hitting editorial on the chicanery of Congress in foisting, on a helpless… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged Co-education Schools, How men and women loved in those days, Humour, International Women's Day, Salim Ali School Ornithology, TR and his wife, TR and Simbu

Rahul angling for Pope’s post

Published by K Balakumar on March 7, 2013 | Leave a response

Vatican impressed by no interest in marriage & PM post remarks New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi’s recent remarks that he was neither keen on the Prime Minister’s chair nor interested in marriage and having children may have seemed enigmatic to many. But sources in the know indicate that this was Rahul’s way of telling the world that he was aspiring for… Read more →

Posted in Crank's News | Tagged Details of Pope Election, History of Popes, Humour, Papal election, Pope Benedict, Sonia Gandhi and Roman Catholics

Adults Only

Published by K Balakumar on March 1, 2013 | Leave a response

My wife is a nervous wreck these days. And I am only marginally better. The only person who is capable of any rational act in my household is my young daughter, which is just as well, because she is the one who is going to take the Board exams this week. Since, in my current state, I am no more… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged Father and Son, Humour, Manmohan Singh as Finance Minister, Parents and Children, Sachin Tendulkar and his father, Tips for taking Exams

The budget bluff

Published by K Balakumar on February 22, 2013 | Leave a response

Next week, when Finance Minister P Chidambaram gets up to present the Union Budget the nation will hold its collective breath for the next two-odd hours, listen to the speech in rapt attention holding on to every word and number and eventually emerge understanding fairly nothing. Let us face it, nobody understands the budget. On second thoughts, nobody understands economics… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged how to analyse the budget, Humour, is the budget good or bad, Nani Palkhivala, NDTV and Sonia, Surjit Bhalla and T N Ninan, Union Budget
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