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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.
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    Shashi Warrier | Time to get under way a World Confusion Day

    An old friend called the other day. “My son Viplabh is going to be in your town for a few days,” he...

    30 April 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Book Review | Surrealistic pieces crafted inexactlyLifestyle
    Book Review | Surrealistic pieces crafted inexactly

    The stories in this collection of tend to be short: 22 of them fit into 184 pages, the two longest being 16 pages each....

    23 April 2023 12:02 AM IST

    Shashi Warrier | Viruses & nukes: Will we wake up in time or stew?Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | Viruses & nukes: Will we wake up in time or stew?

    The other day I woke up at three in the morning to a green light pulsing in our garden. When I went out, I saw a shining...

    2 April 2023 12:14 AM IST

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    Shashi Warrier | Games universities play with students

    My professor friend Raghavan dropped in with his wife a few evenings ago. Both looked downcast: indeed, so downcast that...

    12 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Health workers during a mock drill for COVID-19 preparedness, at Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | The fitness of the bystander

    Some decades ago, my father, living in our hometown in Kerala, had a heart attack in the wee hours of the morning. Since...

    12 Feb 2023 12:55 AM IST

    Cover photo of Eden: An Indian Exploration of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Lore by Devdutt PattanaikLifestyle
    Book Review | A brief history of God

    This evolving tapestry of stories linked across populations, continents and centuries is sometimes shocking but always...

    15 Jan 2023 12:29 AM IST

    Besides security checks, I was worried about the airline, for wed been reading stories about how this particular airline didnt hesitate to beat up passengers. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | In the name of flight security

    It’s strange what they do in the name of security. You don’t notice it much of the time but if you happen to...

    8 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Cover photo of Bravehearts of Bharat by Vikram Sampath (Photo by arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Folk heroes take precedence over icons, wording of title...

    The author says in his introduction that the genesis of this book lay in a meeting with a friend of his, a fellow-writer...

    11 Dec 2022 1:33 AM IST

    Many a time, click fraud can be carried out and executed by the owners of the sites in order to insincerely escalate its ad revenue.Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | The Internet limbo: Where have all the orders gone?

    When my wife and I planned a journey, I went to the railway reservation office in town to book our tickets. On the way...

    3 Dec 2022 11:55 PM IST

    Cover photo of The Education of Yuri by Jerry Pinto (Photo by arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Quasi-autobiographical & sanitised trip back to 1980s’...

    There’s a disquieting view of the country’s education system, as Yuri discovers in preparing for the tuitions that...

    20 Nov 2022 1:21 AM IST

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    Shashi Warrier | Capitalism and the future of train travel

    The other day the missus and I decided to visit relatives in Kerala. We took an early morning train, and, after...

    6 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

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    Shashi Warrier | While partying in New India, silence is golden

    Dasara (as Dussehra is called in southern India) is a big thing in this part of the world. Schools shut down for weeks,...

    9 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

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