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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.
    Shashi Warrier | Adieu, Arkady Renko, Soviet Police DetectiveColumnists
    Shashi Warrier | Adieu, Arkady Renko, Soviet Police Detective

    Smith died in July, aged 82. Parkinson’s disease hadn’t stopped him writing: instead, he shared it with Arkady Renko,...

    5 Oct 2025 12:34 AM IST

    Book Review | Road Trip Novel Dissects a MarriageBooks and Art
    Book Review | Road Trip Novel Dissects a Marriage

    Markovits’ writing brings out best of all the narrator’s character

    27 Sept 2025 1:11 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | Is Newest Tariff Slap Trump’s Last Stand?Columnists
    Shashi Warrier | Is Newest Tariff Slap Trump’s Last Stand?

    “Salma Hayek for one!” said Prita, jumping in. “The actress. He barged in on her and asked her out on a date. She said...

    6 Sept 2025 9:47 PM IST

    Book Review | Combo of Ludlum, Brown and Indiana JonesBooks and Art
    Book Review | Combo of Ludlum, Brown and Indiana Jones

    The author goes on to observe in the end that force — strength — is the only way to preserve peace, but the evidence...

    9 Aug 2025 12:19 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | The Disappearing Post And The Generation GapColumnists
    Shashi Warrier | The Disappearing Post And The Generation Gap

    “It’s the government’s courier service,” explained Raghavan. “A little safer than regular post. You go to the post...

    2 Aug 2025 10:20 PM IST

    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

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