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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 | Lurid and bloated historical epic does not stand test of timeLifestyle
    Book Review | Lurid and bloated historical epic does not stand test of...

    Each of the four volumes of Sivakami’s Vow deserves an independent review because each tells a story of its own...

    6 Aug 2023 12:02 AM IST

    Book Review | C.N. Annadurais witty social realism lost in translationLifestyle
    Book Review | C.N. Annadurai's witty social realism lost in...

    C.N. Annadurai, a journalist and fiction writer before he entered politics, was known for his wit, his wisdom, and his...

    2 July 2023 7:09 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | Will ChatGPT spell end of exams and teachers?Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | Will ChatGPT spell end of exams and teachers?

    My professor friend Raghavan dropped in the other day with his shoulders bowed as if he, not Atlas, bore the weight of...

    2 July 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Book Review | Convention-bound aesthetic, too many subplots clutter up big pictureLifestyle
    Book Review | Convention-bound aesthetic, too many subplots clutter up...

    The premise is excellent: An immortal yaksha named Prem Chandra Guha, immortal and a lowly guardian of Kubera’s...

    4 Jun 2023 12:35 AM IST

    Shashi Warrier | The coronation and the childOpinion
    Shashi Warrier | The coronation and the child

    A young friend left his eight-year-old daughter Anjali with us for a few hours while he took his wife for a medical...

    4 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Representational image. (Wikimedia Commons)Opinion
    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

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