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About the AuthorShashi Warrier
Shashi Warrier has written fairy tales, thrillers, a semi-fictional biography, satires, and a love story. Besides writing, he teaches strategic communication at a business school.
    Book Review | Social Realism From a Place That Time ForgotBooks and Art
    Book Review | Social Realism From a Place That Time Forgot

    Parallel dark strands of caste discrimination and bureaucratic indifference run through the stories

    19 July 2025 12:52 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | What’s The Donald Good For: Nobel or Guinness?Columnists
    Shashi Warrier | What’s The Donald Good For: Nobel or Guinness?

    “Somebody should tell him that being in the Guinness Book of World Records is better than winning a Nobel,” said Murthy

    5 July 2025 8:15 PM IST

    Book Review | Novel Questions How Indian Families Are ChangingBooks and Art
    Book Review | Novel Questions How Indian Families Are Changing

    The telling starts with the Saxena father, Brahm, calling a family council. Mrs Saxena is right there, of course, and...

    21 Jun 2025 4:13 PM IST

    Book Review | Magical Folktales From Arunachal Pradesh’s Peaks And ForestsBooks and Art
    Book Review | Magical Folktales From Arunachal Pradesh’s Peaks And...

    The first story is of a boy, learning from his father to hunt, to track his prey and use his strength and his bow and...

    7 Jun 2025 4:11 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | Faith, Identity and the Pain of ImmigrationColumnists
    Shashi Warrier | Faith, Identity and the Pain of Immigration

    There’s no evidence that Rohingyas or Bangladeshi immigrants have any more criminal tendencies than the rest of us,” Mrs...

    31 May 2025 9:53 PM IST

    Book Review | A Nobel Laureate’s Sense of SnowBooks and Art
    Book Review | A Nobel Laureate’s Sense of Snow

    Troubled by migraines and digestive ailments, she refuses to leave her apartment for treatment. Instead, she works on...

    19 April 2025 5:00 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | Could a comedian be our next CM?Columnists
    Shashi Warrier | Could a comedian be our next CM?

    I tend not to follow up on controversial stories such as this one. “What’s about him?” I asked. “He’s just another a...

    5 April 2025 11:56 PM IST

    Bossy girl, innocent boy ride Luna off to sunsetBooks and Art
    Bossy girl, innocent boy ride Luna off to sunset

    The language is simple, the narration cinematic, the translation competent, and if you follow along with your critical...

    23 March 2025 9:24 AM IST

    Shashi Warrier | Where have all the fun shaadis gone?Columnists
    Shashi Warrier | Where have all the fun shaadis gone?

    A few days later came a surprise call from my ex-professor friend Raghavan: He’d got an invitation to the same function

    8 March 2025 11:06 PM IST

    Book Review | A primer in greedBooks and Art
    Book Review | A primer in greed

    One thread that runs through the book is the mechanics of investment banking, which the author explains fairly simply

    15 Feb 2025 11:52 AM IST

    Shashi Warrier | The failed peacemaker’s drawing room uprisingColumnists
    Shashi Warrier | The failed peacemaker’s drawing room uprising

    My cousin’s Hindi is none too good but with the visuals and the occasional English sound bites he had no trouble getting...

    8 Feb 2025 11:21 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | How to avoid being spoiled by your AIColumnists
    Shashi Warrier | How to avoid being spoiled by your AI

    Christmas Day dawned bright and pleasant, and, as usual, friends dropped in. First in was a lady, a professor at an ...

    5 Jan 2025 12:10 AM IST

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