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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.
    When it comes to diet, Tseng eats little junk food and makes sure he takes a filling breakfast (Photo: Pixabay)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | JFK, yoga, and intermittent fasting

    The shop that supplies most of its contents, incidentally, is the JFP, or Junk Food Paradise

    13 Sept 2020 5:52 PM IST

    I swallowed, collected my scattered wits, and told the driver there was something wrong with the meter.Opinion
    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...

    9 Aug 2020 4:32 PM IST

    Not all cancers yield readily to treatment, but there are new ways to detect cancer early, and to treat it successfully. Representational ImageOpinion
    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...

    12 July 2020 6:05 PM IST

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    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...

    14 Jun 2020 6:08 PM IST

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    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...

    16 May 2020 8:18 PM IST

    A family plays football on the roof of their apartment during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown in Kolkata, on April 2, 2020. (AP)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier: The power of levity in the time of lockdown

    Laughter kept us sane during wars and strikes

    6 April 2020 10:07 PM IST

    Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line. Author: Deepa Annapara. Publisher: Penguin Random House India. Price: Rs 499. 343ppBooks
    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.

    9 March 2020 5:07 PM IST

    Owners can create safe zones for their dogs to roam, monitor activity trends, let friends safely walk their dogs, manage multiple dogs.Opinion
    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.

    2 Feb 2020 1:42 AM IST

    Astrologers may differ in their predictions for the coming year but most predict that the existing political formations will remain undisturbed.Opinion
    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...

    29 Dec 2019 12:26 AM IST

    Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: AP)Opinion
    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.

    1 Dec 2019 6:58 AM IST

    Bursting them is a sign of manhood, a sort of rite of passage for teenage boys.Opinion
    Boys to men: Heartbreak, but a far less toxic Diwali

    Atom bombs, in these parts, are insanely powerful round crackers guaranteed to rattle windows at a hundred paces.

    3 Nov 2019 1:36 AM IST

    Stephen King drives ‘Mercedes’ trilogy to an emotional endBooks
    Stephen King drives ‘Mercedes’ trilogy to an emotional end

    Readers who missed Brady Hartsfield in the second book in Stephen King's trilogy about a psychotic killer will be...

    8 Jun 2016 6:41 AM IST

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