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Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
About the AuthorKrishna Shastri Devulapalli
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli is a humour writer, novelist, columnist and screenwriter
    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...

    2 July 2022 6:45 PM

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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

    4 Jun 2022 7:29 PM

    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...

    30 April 2022 9:12 PM

    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 4:27 AM

    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 5:39 PM

    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

    15 Aug 2020 10:21 PM

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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 11:18 AM

    Guest workers walk on a road as they wait for transportation to go back to their hometowns, after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Allahabad. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli: Let them have song

    Why give them rice, dal and water, was his point, when we could give them life-affirming art and literature

    24 May 2020 1:33 PM

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    The stars have it, but for the missing recipe

    One of the perks, I was told, was rampant, unsupervised browsing time between 2 AM and 5 AM

    26 April 2020 1:44 PM

    The heroines, I said. They get younger and younger and younger. Its brilliant. In fact, one hero, as we speak, has delayed his comeback project because he is waiting for his heroine to be born. I think they are going in for a C-section because the teasers are out. Hmmmm, said God.Opinion
    10 reasons why I want to be reborn a South Hero

    “I’ve seen a couple. My wi-fi has been down. The Dhritarashtra-Sanjaya Network is up for sale, as you know.”

    29 Feb 2020 6:57 PM

    Needless to say, I wont be walking on 4th Avenue any more. Henceforth, I will be available on the Blue Cross Road for my evening consultations. Im the guy with the Mysore-style turban, fake nose and moustache.Opinion
    Snake in the Mami’s shadow

    Mami had got just back from the US.

    18 Jan 2020 11:38 PM

    Dad: You know, at Jaffars near New Elphinstone, they used to sell a Peach Melba so big you couldnt eat it.Opinion
    The best times I never had

    My dad will steer the conversation to the old days turning my UHD live-stream world to a grainy sepia one rolled out of...

    22 Dec 2019 12:00 AM

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