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About the AuthorKrishna Shastri Devulapalli
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli is a humour writer, novelist, columnist and screenwriter
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The Art Of Asking The Right QuestionsColumnists
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The Art Of Asking The Right Questions

    What’s with this mad obsession with collecting endless information that actually adds nothing to our understanding of...

    9 Aug 2026 12:06 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How A Safe Space Triggered My TraumaColumnists
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How A Safe Space Triggered My Trauma

    Listen, you psychobabblers, I am onto you. But let me decode your therapy speak for the benefit of others

    12 July 2026 1:22 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The Grate Indian Dance CompanyColumnists
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The Grate Indian Dance Company

    I would squirm every time I watched a song filmed abroad and wonder at the shamelessness of it all. How could anyone be...

    13 Jun 2026 8:45 PM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be StrawberryColumnists
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be Strawberry

    I guess my friend sent this link to me because the website of our wee indie publishing house says (rather grandiosely,...

    23 May 2026 11:53 PM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Publishing As A Midlife CrisisColumnists
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Publishing As A Midlife Crisis

    Other people have their midlife crises in their forties. But not me.

    18 April 2026 11:40 PM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | My Continuing Struggles With Literature FestivalsColumnists
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | My Continuing Struggles With Literature...

    Was it my interactions with my fellow panellists or my friendship with our 'handlers' that made all the difference?

    15 March 2026 12:44 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | A Thousand Splendid Sons (And Fathers)Columnists
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | A Thousand Splendid Sons (And Fathers)

    One: because, had my grandfather been around, he would have laughed very hard at the brain-dead reimagination of his...

    14 Feb 2026 11:53 PM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Two Short Stories on Love and BusinessColumnists
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Two Short Stories on Love and Business

    I was speaking to a friend a few days ago about the new business venture she was embarking on. I congratulated her...

    17 Jan 2026 9:42 PM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | A Melody That Knows No BordersColumnists
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | A Melody That Knows No Borders

    We’ve all met Balu. We will continue meeting him. Into our old age. Irrespective of which part of India (or the world)...

    14 Dec 2025 12:48 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Could Satire Ever Be Pro-Establishment?Columnists
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Could Satire Ever Be Pro-Establishment?

    Pro-establishment art does the opposite of what art ought to do. It comforts the bully and disturbs the oppressed.

    9 Nov 2025 1:51 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | A Deliberation On Parts Both Private And PublicColumnists
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | A Deliberation On Parts Both Private And...

    You had the feeling that, despite their acceding to having a part of their life recorded, their amygdala protested, that...

    18 Oct 2025 11:55 PM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Can One Have Intimacy Under The Arc Lights?Columnists
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Can One Have Intimacy Under The Arc...

    Because I like Arundhati Roy, the writer and person. I like her because she is that rare artist who cannot be separated...

    13 Sept 2025 9:21 PM IST

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