The Case of the Blue Cornered Notice

The Enforcement Directorate served a Blue cornered alert against former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi, allegedly for FEMA violations. Mr Modi, though, denies having been served with any such and says it is just another of the petty games the BCCI is playing. “Just not cricket”, exclaimed the Modi camp, flushing red in their agitation “they [...]

Suspended Animation

The scientific world is all agog about recent demonstrations that Hydrogen Sulphide, a gas released by all animals and characterised by the smell of rotting eggs is instrumental in causing mice to enter a state of suspended animation. One wonders that it took so long to demonstrate this, given that since time immemorial, people have [...]

Flying High?

An advertisement for an airline. One only hopes their record extends to landings as well !!!

Cyber Sex

Of all pranks to play, this has to take the cake. Or at least a large slice of it. No doubt the best man told them a little birdie tweeted in his ear how many times they did it!!

Big Daddy

A local leader in India is on hunger strike. He is in hospital and is being administered “Total Parental Nutrition“. Parental. So what did they feed him, Huh?

Tiger lands in the Rough

By some reports, Tiger Woods has completed the front nine. If these reports are true, he will need to put’t’ in a great effort in getting out of this hole. What we wonder is if this is par for the course. If not, the back nine is yet to be completed!

Male Superiority?

Scientists, philosophers, actually virtually anyone and everyone has at one time or another debated whether the male or the female of the species is superior. A study done this year at the Tokyo University of Agricultural Sciences claims that not only is the female of the species better adapted to survival (and therefore superior), but [...]

Maomao mia

Mamata Banerjee and Buddhadeb Bhattacharya have been calling each other names. First Buddha accused Ms Banerjee of having links with the Maoists and then, she returned the “compliment”. All this reminds one of a famous bit of dialogue from a blockbuster Hindi movie. To paraphrase, “Mere paas gaadi hai, paisa hai, bangla hai … . [...]

Tweet Tweet

Shashi Tharoor is not your run of the mill Indian politician. He has run into trouble with his party on more occasions than one, be it for his comments, or his “lavish lifestyle” in times of austerity. But his latest comment on Twitter, about travelling cattle class, seems to have really got his party’s goat. [...]

Grab you by the throat

So this zoo in Nagpur allowed a minister Balasaheb Thorat to enter a tiger cage. Apparently this flouts many norms. Be that as it may, the general opinion at the Pelican Club is that the zoo would have looked pretty silly had the animal grabbed someone by the Thorat!!!