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Krishna Shastri Devulapalli is a humour writer, novelist, columnist and screenwriter

How do you expect the world to see her newborn glow if you kill it yourself with the klieg light youve turned on her? (Representational Image)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The needy universe of social media...

When parents suck up to their kids in public, the intent needs to be examined

11 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Do you know who we are, Europe?

Don't forget we had pushpaka vimanams. Imagine if we decided to bring them back. What would happen to your airlines and...

7 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How to leave home a cynic and return an...

Buck up. We have a world to save

9 April 2023 12:00 AM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Synonyms that so often are antonyms...

So is a painting by C©zanne, an Ennio Morricone composition or the unfettered flatulence of someone close by who's eaten...

25 March 2023 9:19 PM IST

E-books had certainly existed before the Kindle and other devices for they were an alternate form of publishing and for publishers, certain genres of publishing required the e-book format and now technology became an enabler. (Photo: Facebook screengrab, Representational)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How to recognise a writer

Didn't Groucho Marx say it best? I refuse to be a member of any club that accepts me.'

26 Feb 2023 1:55 AM IST

The hour-long sessions are scintillating, I tell you, and I have learnt much on a variety of subjects. (Illustration By Krishna Shastri Devulapalli)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Why I just love literature festivals

Literature festivals, for the unversed, are where we writers go to mingle with wannabes, has-beens, never-will-bes,...

29 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

While masks, hand sanitizers, triple-boosters and wild dancing in streets do help, the need of the hour, however, is sustained, planned avoidance of other human beings. (Representational Image/AA)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How to stay safe in the coming wave

Below is a list of people who need to be avoided not just during pandemic times but even if a meteor were to come...

1 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Mallikarjun Babu had a secret weapon: his cousin, film financier Govardhan Babu. Who owned a souped-up, twin-carb Premier Padmini with floorshift gears, alloy rims, multibranch exhaust, air-conditioning and a cutting-edge stereo system. (Image by arrangement)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How Mallikarjun Babu's secret weapon...

To this day, Malli, now a grandfather, gets a befuddled look in his eyes and bites his lower lip suggestively when the...

11 Dec 2022 1:25 AM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | What's old isn't necessarily gold

What the romanticization of old friendships also brings into sharp focus is how little we seem to value the concept of...

13 Nov 2022 12:10 AM IST

Fiction will be alive and kicking as long as we and our imaginations are alive. I think its people who are in the book business who need to check their pulses. Representational Image/DC

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Fiction is dead.... Long live fiction

Fiction is in a dismal state, said a well-known literary agent

16 Oct 2022 7:54 AM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Trespassers Will Be Garlanded

Over the years, I have got used to receiving my own posts as WhatsApp forwards attributed to others

11 Sept 2022 1:00 AM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Carpenter-backed roles and plumber's...

Honestly, though, film folk, you'll have to come up with new things to say in your coming interviews

14 Aug 2022 12:15 AM IST