August 15. Just quiz any Chennaiite as to with which landmark event would they associate the day, the answer mostly would be: Landmark event. Of course, the reference here is to the annual Landmark Quiz, which has now become hugely popular among those people with whom it was already hugely popular. I mean I see the same quizmaster, almost the… Read more →
If I ask you, ‘what were you doing on the morning of July 30, 2012?’ you will hopelessly shake your head and point out the obvious stupidity of the question. But history teachers never let such things as foolishness tobother them. They keep popping questions like what was Gandhi up to on August 8,1942. Naturally, most of us reply, I… Read more →
Chennai: Some sports are easy to understand. For instance, hockey. If Belgium, which did not send a team to the Olympics at all, is winning you can easily surmise that India is the opponent. But a few other sports are difficult to comprehend because there are too much technicalities. Here we at Crank’s News have handpicked three Olympic sports and… Read more →
Recently I was involved in a road accident, which happened — I will confess here — due to a grave error on my part: I tried to observe some road rules on a Chennai road. And this is how it panned out: I, driving on the extreme left of the road, had to slow down my vehicle as a schoolgirl… Read more →
Exclusive excerpts from the diary of an Indian Olympian London: We at Crank’s News, in our continuing endeavour to bring news that you can’t find anywhere, have secured exclusive rights to publish the pages from the diary of Indian Olympian at the ongoing London Olympics. Here is the inside story from the man with the ringside view: Day 1: There… Read more →
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