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Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
About the AuthorKrishna Shastri Devulapalli
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli is a humour writer, novelist, columnist and screenwriter
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    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | What’s old isn’t necessarily gold

    Any wisdom that’s handed down, I’ve always suspected. Like the goodness of Mom’s cooking, for...

    13 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

    Fiction will be alive and kicking as long as we and our imaginations are alive. I think its people who are in the book business who need to check their pulses. Representational Image/DCOpinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Fiction is dead.... Long live fiction

    “Fiction is in a dismal state,” said a well-known literary agent

    16 Oct 2022 7:37 AM IST

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    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Trespassers Will Be Garlanded

    A few years ago, one of the country’s top law firms invited me to be part of a discussion on intellectual property...

    11 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

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    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Carpenter-backed roles and plumber’s...

    If I were in school now and having to explain my current absence, this is how my leave letter would go: Dear Madam,...

    14 Aug 2022 12:15 AM IST

    Coverpage of A Country Called Childhood. (Image By Arrangement)Lifestyle
    Naval playing field: How post-Partition Amritsar nurtured an elegant...

    If the time and place played a significant role in the making of Naval, one can’t discount the influence of her rich...

    23 July 2022 10:30 PM IST

    What would I have done if my own parting had happened now? Instead of writing weekly letters in longhand or waiting for the monthly one-hour tapes of her life in cold, distant Boston, would we have video-called each other three times a day? (Photo: Pixabay)Opinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The uninterrupted cigarette of love

    Nothing defines love, or for that matter allows you to experience love in its elemental sense, than bittersweet...

    3 July 2022 12:15 AM IST

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    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The Language of Love

    When people from diverse linguistic backgrounds need to communicate with each other, they will find ways

    5 Jun 2022 12:59 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | White lies, brown nosesOpinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | White lies, brown noses

    No one is lying sleepless and chanting the Hanuman Chalisa over our skyrocketing economic, military, yogic, and, above...

    1 May 2022 2:42 AM IST

    In popular culture, the male huddle has been among the most paeanized of phenomena. They even have a term for it: bromance, a genre in films even more popular than the dreaded rom-com. (Representational Image: AFP)Opinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | #RealMenDon’tHuddle

    Every horror perpetrated on every woman is born out of what we have come to accept as the male huddle, including rape.

    18 Oct 2020 9:57 AM IST

    Akbar, the Great Mughal.Opinion
    Devulapalli | Time to move on from mythology

    How about we put history aside for a bit and brush up on reason, scientific thinking and logic instead?

    6 Sept 2020 11:09 PM IST

    Friends wearing face masks amid the spread of new coronavirus pose for a group photo in front of a painting by Petrona Viera as they visit the National Museum of Visual Arts in Montevideo, Uruguay. AP PhotoOpinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Who will I be when I look at Souza?

    Call me middle-class, but I-'ve always had a deep suspicion of art collectors

    16 Aug 2020 3:51 AM IST

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    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Three Short Tales On Art

    In some cases, the publishing houses have been sold, lock, stock and barrel

    21 Jun 2020 4:48 PM IST

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