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Shashi Warrier
Shashi Warrier | The business of our discontent
Murthy has some form of ESP because he knows exactly when I replenish my stocks of scotch
17 Oct 2021 1:50 AM
Shashi Warrier | The pitfalls of raising mom’s special child
So while I sympathised with the professor, I couldn’t help thinking that maybe aggressive moms aren’t a bad thing, after all
12 Sep 2021 3:13 AM
Shashi Warrier | The joys, perils and disasters of cooking
That evening, I bought a two-kilo chunk of meat along with my regular groceries
06 Jun 2021 12:36 PM
Shashi Warrier | The mushroom business
Blind faith leaves you unaware of its ill effects. There’s a profit to be made out of that faith
02 May 2021 12:00 AM
Shashi Warrier | Of ‘everyone’s friends’ and being a public enemy
The other day there was a message on WhatsApp that our MLA would be visiting the nearby Primary Health Centre, or PHC, the next day
04 Apr 2021 4:19 AM
Shashi Warrier | Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the most civilized of ’em all?
A neighbour, an amateur historian, happens to believe that all good things come from India
07 Mar 2021 4:24 AM
Shashi Warrier | The WhatsApp riddle: What’s the big secret?
I was unable to decide whether to change from WhatsApp to some other app, and people were giving me conflicting bits of advice
07 Feb 2021 7:45 AM
Shashi Warrier | Gangsters, gurus and other political spirits
There are four steps with which you deal with opposition: saama, daana, bheda, and danda
03 Jan 2021 4:24 AM
Shashi Warrier | Let ’Em Eat Cake!
“The purpose of governance in India is to create and manage queues. Where there are queues, there are people willing to pay to jump them"
06 Dec 2020 7:40 AM
Shashi Warrier | The son also rises
“Back to that VIP. It’s the son’s birthday today, and he’s having a party… I’ll get my scotch there.”
08 Nov 2020 4:26 AM
Shashi Warrier | JFK, yoga, and intermittent fasting
The shop that supplies most of its contents, incidentally, is the JFP, or Junk Food Paradise
13 Sep 2020 5:52 PM
Shashi Warrier | My first brush with a Madras autowallah
One final instruction relayed from my Madras cousin: Don’t ever take an autorickshaw in madras because the drivers are all cheats!
09 Aug 2020 4:32 PM
Shashi Warrier | Here’s to you, Dr Mary Kuriakose
Doctors and technology have made huge differences to lives, but sometimes, in individual cases, there’s also the matter of luck
12 Jul 2020 6:05 PM
Shashi Warrier | Principle of politics: Know your enemy
The ideology fellows say that society or countries or whatever must follow such-and-such rules to achieve happiness in this life
14 Jun 2020 6:08 PM
Shashi Warrier: My friend Murthy and the corona conspiracies
To these guys it’s easy to tell who’s good and who’s not If you’re alive at the end of the pandemic you’re good, and otherwise you’re dead
16 May 2020 8:18 PM
Shashi Warrier: The power of levity in the time of lockdown
Laughter kept us sane during wars and strikes
06 Apr 2020 10:07 PM
Pidgin and all goth, Djinn goes where others daren’t
Deepa Annapara has tried to do something extremely difficult: write a story for grown-ups in the voice of a child.
09 Mar 2020 5:07 PM
Of dogs of mayhem and passing dogs
The clamour of Fudge and Wonder barking at a passing dog woke me up just then, and I went back to watching cricket.
02 Feb 2020 1:42 AM
Balkanisation and the secret pull of astro TV
It was a magnificent picture, awe-inspiring and sometimes terrifying to us childen, for it taught us how little we really controlled in our lives.
29 Dec 2019 12:26 AM
As Pak flounders, try a measure of grace
The army is also seething because, for the first time in Pakistani history, soldiers haven’t got their annual raise.
01 Dec 2019 6:58 AM
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Murthy has some form of ESP because he knows exactly when I replenish my stocks of scotch
Savarkar has rightly been the target of those in India who believe in our inherent plurality and inclusiveness of vision
The bald truth in this matter is that nobody really knows what’s going on
There have been at least two similar instances when young IAS officers have dragged their governments and the service into disrepute