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Shashi Warrier
Book Review | Quasi-autobiographical & sanitised trip back to 1980s’ Mumbai
There’s a disquieting view of the country’s education system, as Yuri discovers in preparing for the tuitions that generate his income
20 Nov 2022 1:38 AM
Shashi Warrier | Capitalism and the future of train travel
“No one remembers cassettes,” I said. “Youngsters these days don’t even know about CDs!”
06 Nov 2022 12:05 AM
Book Review | A cleverly wound string of quirky-witty mindbenders
Everything in this quirky speculative fiction is about a search for essence
04 Sep 2022 2:08 AM
Shashi Warrier | All’s fair in love and school…
“Confusion means diversity,” my friend replied, finishing the coffee and putting the cup down with a bang
04 Sep 2022 12:16 AM
An introduction to vivid maths in lush and mellow Trinidad
If you like vibrant and provocative writing, you might like to dip into this book
07 Aug 2022 12:28 AM
Shashi Warrier | Is the Indian govt spoiling its citizens?
The government wants citizens to make the best of whatever they get. So everyone learns to evolve, to deal with whatever life gives them
07 Aug 2022 12:17 AM
Book Review | The superheroes of the shore continue to surprise and allure
These shifting battlegrounds are without villains, for the killers take what they need and no more
16 Jul 2022 11:55 PM
Shashi Warrier | The New Press Utopia!
That question was a mistake, because even though he can’t talk while he’s drinking, he can certainly think and drink, and he did
10 Jul 2022 12:59 AM
Book Review | Writer turns diarist, maps his own matrix of thoughts
It’s a small book, sprinkled lightly with insight, with moments of intimacy and of honesty
12 Jun 2022 2:42 PM
Shashi Warrier | Variant-shopping and the booster consultation
'If the bloody virus is manmade, it makes sense to develop a vaccine for it, too'
12 Jun 2022 3:43 AM
Shashi Warrier | The tweet is mightier than the sword
It’s not the servers and the software but what people do with them
08 May 2022 1:23 AM
book Review | Relook at Netaji, the inconvenient one who made all the hard choices
After all, he did more in two decades than most other heroes achieved in a lifetime
01 May 2022 12:26 AM
Book Review | Lesbian girl’s family drama let down by plot device
Nawaaz Ahmed has a gift for the language that will likely brighten with usage, as he grows in simplicity and wisdom
24 Apr 2022 12:43 AM
Shashi Warrier | The three lives and death of a cat
I didn’t fancy having a cat in the house, but that purr was irresistible
03 Apr 2022 12:49 AM
Book Review | Sketches from Bangladesh on the slow death of ideals
Shahidul Zahir tells of the horrors that came before the creation of Bangladesh and of why their shadows will never leave the land
03 Apr 2022 12:05 AM
Shashi Warrier | Hobgoblin in the house
We’ve named it Kuttichathan, Malayalam for hobgoblin
06 Mar 2022 1:55 AM
Book Review | Clear-eyed perspective on Mahatma’s assassination
The first thing that strikes you about this book is its no-nonsense writing
27 Feb 2022 2:45 AM
Shashi Warrier | No bump in the road if the better half rides...
Our lives have changed so much since the pandemic started that some things we thought normal a few years ago seem extraordinary now
13 Feb 2022 2:31 AM
Did careless governance plus bad work ethic cause India’s economic descent?
The opening pages of the book argue that India was always rich. Certainly it was
09 Jan 2022 1:34 AM
Shashi Warrier | How I made peace with my scooter and my life
I tried lots of popular scooters, and they all seemed the same: small and light and cramped, with my knees hitting the apron if braked hard
02 Jan 2022 2:25 AM
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The listlessness shows in endless political campaigning conducted without much reference to performance, only to charisma
It can be expected that Gen. Munir will attempt to establish his own coterie of loyalists who may not be in line with Gen. Bajwa’s thinking
It is all balle-balle for one community, purely because Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has taken over
India must set out an agenda of interest to the developing countries