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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.
    Shashi Warrier | The Disappearing Post And The Generation GapColumnists
    Shashi Warrier | The Disappearing Post And The Generation Gap

    “It’s the government’s courier service,” explained Raghavan. “A little safer than regular post. You go to the post...

    2 Aug 2025 10:19 PM IST

    Book Review | Social Realism From a Place That Time ForgotBooks
    Book Review | Social Realism From a Place That Time Forgot

    Parallel dark strands of caste discrimination and bureaucratic indifference run through the stories

    19 July 2025 1:38 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | What’s The Donald Good For: Nobel or Guinness?Columnists
    Shashi Warrier | What’s The Donald Good For: Nobel or Guinness?

    “Somebody should tell him that being in the Guinness Book of World Records is better than winning a Nobel,” said Murthy

    5 July 2025 9:41 PM IST

    Book Review | Novel Questions How Indian Families Are ChangingBooks
    Book Review | Novel Questions How Indian Families Are Changing

    The telling starts with the Saxena father, Brahm, calling a family council. Mrs Saxena is right there, of course, and...

    21 Jun 2025 4:13 PM IST

    Book Review | Magical Folktales From Arunachal Pradesh’s Peaks And ForestsBooks
    Book Review | Magical Folktales From Arunachal Pradesh’s Peaks And...

    The first story is of a boy, learning from his father to hunt, to track his prey and use his strength and his bow and...

    7 Jun 2025 4:11 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | Faith, Identity and the Pain of ImmigrationColumnists
    Shashi Warrier | Faith, Identity and the Pain of Immigration

    There’s no evidence that Rohingyas or Bangladeshi immigrants have any more criminal tendencies than the rest of us,” Mrs...

    31 May 2025 10:21 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | Is Independence Day All That We Have Left?Columnists
    Shashi Warrier | Is Independence Day All That We Have Left?

    An old friend, Sunil, and his wife, Madhu, came visiting from Bengaluru the other day. We were looking forward to that,...

    3 May 2025 11:40 PM IST

    Book Review | A Nobel Laureate’s Sense of SnowBooks
    Book Review | A Nobel Laureate’s Sense of Snow

    A message from a close friend and professional partner, a photographer, Inseon, wakes Kyungha from this existence....

    19 April 2025 7:32 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | Could a comedian be our next CM?Columnists
    Shashi Warrier | Could a comedian be our next CM?

    I tend not to follow up on controversial stories such as this one. “What’s about him?” I asked. “He’s just another a...

    6 April 2025 12:26 AM IST

    Bossy girl, innocent boy ride Luna off to sunsetBooks
    Bossy girl, innocent boy ride Luna off to sunset

    The language is simple, the narration cinematic, the translation competent, and if you follow along with your critical...

    23 March 2025 9:26 AM IST

    Shashi Warrier | Where have all the fun shaadis gone?Columnists
    Shashi Warrier | Where have all the fun shaadis gone?

    A few days later came a surprise call from my ex-professor friend Raghavan: He’d got an invitation to the same function

    8 March 2025 11:13 PM IST

    Book Review | A primer in greedBooks
    Book Review | A primer in greed

    The opening chapter of the book engages, like a good spy thriller — a bunch of possibly sinister photographs, a...

    15 Feb 2025 12:02 PM IST

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