The year 2015, momentous as it was, is difficult to slot as there was no one single abiding emotion to it. In that it is quite unlike 2014, which we were quite happy that it actually ended. Anyway, for India, 2015 may perhaps go down in history as the one in which the mainstream media, despite being insolently cold-shouldered by… Read more →
Disclaimer: Sorry for disclaiming right at the start. The actual disclaimer comes next. Disclaimer 2: Will a light-hearted attempted humour piece be insensitive at this juncture is a question that I asked myself before sitting down to write this. Humour, by its very nature, is of course only that. A joke, by definition, is *on* somebody only. But, then again,… Read more →
This week, Crank’s Corner will reveal the details of the hot new lover boy in the life of Nayantara. Thanks for coming to the second paragraph, which you would not have if we had straightaway confessed that this week we were actually going to write about the likes of Rainer Schuettler, Alex Corretja, Feliciano Lopez, Jelena Jankovic, Martina Hingis, Fernando… Read more →
The unprecedented rains and the resultant floods that ravaged Chennai last week saw the emerging force of social media —- WhatsApp, Twitter, Faceboook, which manfully rose to the occasion by disseminating, on a war-footing, memes and jokes, proving the age-old adage: when the going gets tough, the tough get going, while the rest get extraordinarily silly. Agreed, that is a… Read more →
Thanks to the almost non-stop rains over the week across Chennai, schools have declared holiday and offices and establishments have extended their staff, even if they happened to be pizza delivery guys, work-from-home option. And with electricity, DTH and internet too down in many places, several households are staring at a strange, rarely-experienced predicament: Of having to interact with other… Read more →
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