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Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
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Krishna Shastri Devulapalli is a humour writer, novelist, columnist and screenwriter
    So how do you identify a writer? Give her a mirror. If she holds it up to society, shes a writer. (DC File Image)Opinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How to recognise a writer

    Not too long ago, an agitated writer got in touch. (Calm writers don’t usually approach us.) The writer was...

    26 Feb 2023 1:51 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Why I just love literature festivalsOpinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Why I just love literature festivals

    Sigh, this is the season of literature festivals, and I just love them to death. In my dozen or so years as one of...

    29 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Education secretary Vakati Karuna stated that generic cautionary messages have been conveyed to schools, instructing students to maintain social distance, wash their hands frequently, and wear masks in crowded spaces. \No specific guidelines have been issued. (DC)Opinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How to stay safe in the coming wave

    If the experts, and by that I mean the same folks who told us how to keep Covid at bay with brass utensils and...

    1 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How Mallikarjun Babu’s secret weapon backfiredOpinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How Mallikarjun Babu’s secret weapon...

    To impress girls in the ’80s, you absolutely needed two things: a music system and wheels. Mallikarjun Babu, that...

    11 Dec 2022 1:25 AM IST

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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

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    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

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