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Ravi Shastri bids farewell to “tracer bullet” cliche; replaces it with “Usain Bolt”

Ravi Shastri made a momentous announcement that has sent shock waves across the cricketing world. The legend disclosed that he has substituted his trademark cliché 'that went like a tracer-bullet’, a phrase with which he has 'regaled’ cricket lovers on innumerable occasions in the past, with 'that went like Usain Bolt’ so as to sound cooler.

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Humour: Look what Vijay Mallya is now auctioning off to pay debtors!

After deciding to sell off Kingfisher’s non-core assets such as the Kingfisher House in Mumbai and Vijay Mallya’s villa in Goa, bankers along with liquor baron announced their decision to auction off Vijay Mallya’s son Siddharth Mallya as part of their debt recovery process.

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Satire: Banned Danish Kaneria appeals to President Pratibha Patil

Tainted Pakistan Test cricketer Danish Kaneria, who was slapped a life ban by the English Cricket Board (ECB) for involvement in match-fixing, met President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday to seek a pardon for his crimes.

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Failed students seek N. Srinivasan’s blessings; confident of passing

Several travel agencies were surprised and began to panic at the rapid cancellation of tickets for buses plying to holy, religious towns like Tirupati and Madurai. Instead, the same agencies were pleasantly surprised at the sudden surge in ticket sales on all buses plying to the hill station of Kodaikanal.

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Satire: Shahrukh Khan and MCA patch up; Sajid Khan plays peacemaker

Filmmaker Sajid Khan seems to be turning into a full-time peacemaker these days. Farah Khan’s brother was at it again! This time he facilitated a patch-up between Shahrukh Khan and officials of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), after their recent brawl which led to the MCA filing a complaint in the Marine Drive police station against the superstar.

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Satire: Bangar, Laxman for Rajya Sabha as replacements for Bangaru Laxman!

Clearly proving that they are not going to be a mute spectator, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), purported to be the party with a difference, has hit right back at the Congress by nominating cricketers Sanjay Bangar and VVS Laxman to the Rajya Sabha as a replacement for former BJP President Bangaru Laxman, who was recently convicted of taking a bribe of INR 1 lakh 11 years ago.

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Satire: Congress workers storm Sony Studios and thrash Tom Moody

Under a mistaken assumption that a recent report from Moody’s Analytics, which had slammed the national government for being the 'single biggest drag’ on business activity, was the handiwork of former Australian cricketer turned commentator, Tom Moody, a group of irate Congress workers stormed into the Extraa Innings studio at Sony Entertainment Television’s studios and assaulted the 6-foot, seven-inches Australian.

 

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Satire: Now it’s Sreesanth who gets detained at an American Airport!

With national outrage over Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s detention at an airport in New York still simmering, callous American immigration authorities have yet again behaved offensively. This time, it is Indian speedster Shantakumaran Sreesanth, who was detained by security officials at Boston airport for undertaking 'suspicious activities’..

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Satire: Lasith Malinga unwittingly drawn into “Porngate” scandal!

After Google, it now seems to be the turn of India’s own Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to commit its share of typos and spelling errors. Adding to the BJP’s long list of gaffes was an official statement issued to the press by the party with regard to the "Porngate" scandal, involving two of their Gujarat MLAs, which read as follows: "This is nothing but the handiwork of the Congress party, which is trying to malinga us".

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Satire: Shastri kidnapped ahead of Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th ton; released later!

On a day when the Union Budget and Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th century hogged all the limelight, an incident which went completely unnoticed was the kidnapping of former Indian cricketer and commentator Ravi Shastri. Sources say that a group of die-hard Tendulkar fans had been lurking outside Shastri’s residence, which had been bugged.

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