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Kamal and I

Published by K Balakumar on January 11, 2013 | Leave a response

“Due to unforeseen circumstances we are unable to bring to you the previously scheduled report this week. We regret the inconvenience, if any. Please come back next week by which time we should have, hopefully, thought up something to fill this space with”. Ideally, I should have let the above message scroll all over here and gone back to sleep…. Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged DTH services, Hey Ram, Humour, Kamal and his films, Kamal and his Hindi films, Vishwaroopam and its premiere

Harvest of holidays

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

The days and nights of partying are over. The New Year is well and truly upon us. This is the time when life gets all real. And so, we, the industrious people in Tamil Nadu, get ready for long and arduous days of more holidays. Thirteen days in January alone, to give you the precise number. Come to think of… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged Annamalai, Bhgi, Custom and culture of Pongal, Festivals of Tamil nadu, Holidays in January, Humour, Kaanum Pongal, Maatu Pongal, Pongal Holidays in Tamil nadu

A year to the ground –II

Published by K Balakumar on December 28, 2012 | Leave a response

(This year-end compilation is a continuation from last week) June In a dramatic twist in the Aarushi murder case, the investigating officials say that the young girl might have committed suicide unable to overcome the humiliation that she was murdered. ‘This may look utterly nonsensical. But it is lot more believable than anything that we have claimed so far in… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged Facebook and Instagram, Humour, India and OIlympics, Kamal's Vishwaroopam and controversies, Longform journalism, Obama Creates History, Pranab Mukherjee and President, Year-end review of 2012

What will 2013 be like?

Published by K Balakumar on December 27, 2012 | Leave a response

We grill the zodiac for you The zodiac column presents a unique challenge to the newspaper people. Because, quite unlike, say, the Editorial, it’s something that is actually read. So newspapers cannot simply bluff. They have to bluff with effort. The thing about the zodiac column is that those who believe in such stuff keenly follow it. Those who don’t… Read more →

Posted in Crank's News | Tagged Humour, India and astrology, Predictions for 2013, the most accurate zodiac predictions, Zodiac signs and their importance

A year to the ground

Published by K Balakumar on December 21, 2012 | Leave a response

As the year slips into the yawning mouth of history, and as another is ready to be delivered from the womb of time, the abiding sentiment of the moment is one of great hope that this paragraph will stop attempting to be pretentiously poetic. The year-end compilations are a great tradition in the newspaper industry, wherein we collate, in convenient… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged Humour, Important events of 2012, The things that made news in 2012, Year-end review of 2012
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