Author: Balanarayan NT

  • He moon-walked his way to death

    Sorry for such a cheesy headline. After all, I am an Indian journalist, we end up churning out a dozen such headlines on a daily basis. So when such cheesy headlines turn up on my blog, I request you to classify it as an occupational hazard. Now, don’t put my poor/pathetic/lousy humour-sense under that category,…

  • Reading, discussion, of Kerala, Kerala, Quite Contrary

    Notytony just mailed me details on launch of a book, Kerala, Kerala, Quite Contrary. Having lived in Kerala for 17 years and having spent the last 5 outside it, I know how big a set of hypocrites we are. I am not sure if the book deal with mallu hypocrisy, but the review by Deccan…

  • How i.in led to chupchap.in

    I had promised here to narrate the long story behind this domain I bought and how I set it up. It all started with me being confused about what kind of domain I wanted to buy. Should it be chupchap.com, chupchap.in a shorter domain like chup.in or something even shorter. I just wasn’t sure; just…

  • China is making a fool of themselves

    I don’t understand China at times. Call it cultural gap/shock whatever you want, but they are just strange, just like Chailey goes aaagh about things here in India I suppose. First, they decide to beat up/slaughter students in Tiananmen Square about 20 years back and then they try to white wash it by scaring witnesses…

  • Rumour: Royal Challengers to have blue jersey from next year?

    Last year they looked royally challenged, but this year Royal Challengers Bangalore, put up a solid challenge. Despite all the heroics by Kumble and co, it was finally the men in blue who took away the IPL trophy; yet again. pic: timesofindia.com Shane Warne’s army, the real duplicate men in blue, (original is Indian cricket…