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A question of if and weather

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

  The government is trying its best to capture it. The media is crying itself hoarse by discussing it in the manner best known to it, which is by scrolling ‘Breaking News’ and then exiting for advertisement break. The landed farmers, and the land-less tribals are equally worried over it. Mr M has the entire country, and that includes this… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged difference between weather and climate, El Nino and Global Warming, Humour, Mani Ratnam's Kadal, Meteorological Department

Olympic history and our story

Published by K Balakumar on July 25, 2012 | Leave a response

Many interesting tidbits from the Games Chennai: The quadrennial fever of newspapers describing the Olympics as ‘quadrennial fever’ has set in. To keep up with the spirit of the occasion, we at Crank’s News have dug up some interesting nugget of trivia from our Olympian memory. # Ancient Olympics began in 776 BC, and in the early Games only men… Read more →

Posted in Crank's News | Tagged Ancient Olympic Games, Cricket in Olympics, Drug cheats in Olympics, History of the Olympic Games, Humour, India's record in Olympics, Interesting trivia on Olympics

Crowing Glory!

Published by K Balakumar on July 20, 2012 | Leave a response

Whenever we talk of Rajesh Khanna, we cannot but talk of those wonderful melodies that came to pretty much defining him. Yes, those magically memorable songs that he didn’t sing or write or compose music for. That was the beauty of his greatness. Somebody else worked for it. The only other place where such a thing regularly happens is —… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged Dharmendra, Hindi films in Tamil Nadu, Humour, Kaka pidikaradhu, Kamal and Rajni in Hindi movies, Tribute to Rajesh Khanna

Olympic glory for Vadapalani

Published by K Balakumar on July 13, 2012 | Leave a response

If you are reading this in Chennai, and if you have a function/office to attend tomorrow, I have one extremely helpful advice for you: Stop reading. Don’t get me wrong. What I mean to say is that you must get out and start joining the traffic today itself so that you can hope to reach wherever you want to at… Read more →

Posted in Crank's Corner | Tagged Chenai and Olympics, Humour, Metro Rail project in Chennai, Solutions to traffic jams in Chennai, Vadapalani and Arcot Road

Crank’s News: MVPs on VPs

Published by K Balakumar on July 12, 2012 | Leave a response

New Delhi: While the Presidential poll is hogging all the limelight, the election to choose the country’s Vice President is not getting enough attention. This is a shame considering the fact that the post of Vice President is the closest that one can experience pre-retirement what people in other jobs enjoy post-retirement. Here at Crank’s News, we have pulled out… Read more →

Posted in Crank's News | Tagged Humour, Indian history and Vice Presidents, the List of Indian Vice Presidents, Vice President of India, Vice President of India and Constitution
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