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Shashi Warrier
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.
    Exploring the Complex World of Local Politics: A Corporators Perspective on Power and Responsibility. (Image: Freepik)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | The insufferable arrogance of writers

    A Candid Conversation with a Local Corporator: Politics, Promises, and Accountability

    1 Oct 2023 12:05 AM IST

    The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao. (Image: DC)Books
    Anatomy Of A Riot Pretends To Debunk Epic, Ends Up Restoring It

    No one spoke of justice because there was no need

    1 Oct 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with party leaders Rahul Gandhi, K.C. Venugopal and Nana Patole during an interaction with party workers. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | The manufacture of discontent

    The whole thing about discontent," he explained, "is to keep it simple, and to repeat it over and over.

    10 Sept 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Cover photo of The Bird Man of India: Salim Ali for Children by Zai Whitaker. (Photo by arrangement)Books
    Book Review | Salim Ali: An unlikely beginning, a great end

    It's the author's well-founded belief that Salim Ali's life offers today's children a role model.

    27 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Facebook faces antitrust investigations, like other big tech companies such as Google and Amazon, and Mark Zuckerberg pointed out to the probes to claim there was no arrangement with Trump on keeping his accounts uncensored. (Photo | AFP)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | Whose club best between barber and Zuckerberg?

    The conversation went all over the place after that, but it still held my interest.

    13 Aug 2023 12:30 AM IST

    Annas stories sprang from his politics, and, more visibly, the compassion in which his socialist views were rooted. His feelings on British rule, brahminical superiority, widow remarriage, and what were to become known as self-respect marriages marriages free of priests and dowries all show up in them. Finally, he was one of the pioneers of using popular fiction to promote a political party, first as a writer of short stories and then as a writer of movie scripts.Books
    Book Review | C.N. Annadurai's witty social realism lost in...

    Annadurai's fame as a politician tends to overshadow his accomplishments as a storyteller

    3 July 2023 12:46 AM IST

    ChatGPT can formulate legal notes, spot humanly undetectable diseases, and write computer code. (Photo: Wikipedia)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | Will ChatGPT spell end of exams and teachers?

    Have you used ChatGPT?

    2 July 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Cover photo of Song of the Golden Sparrow by Nilanjan P. Choudhury. (Photo by arrangement)Books
    Book Review | Convention-bound aesthetic, too many subplots clutter up...

    Historically significant characters flit in and out of the book.

    4 Jun 2023 12:37 AM IST

    Looking at the ageing couple on the throne, considering King Charles IIIs unusual personal history, I couldnt help agreeing how hed need Gods help to save his job. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | The coronation and the child

    Queen Camilla had chosen not to wear the Kohinoor, but the other jewels the various Stars of Africa were very much on...

    4 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Representational image. (Wikimedia Commons)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | Time to get under way a World Confusion Day

    Faith is as much a part of our universe as physics , I said. It's built into human nature, and thence into nature.

    30 April 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Cover photo of The Inexact Room by Salil Chaturvedi. (Photo by arrangement)Books
    Book Review | Surrealistic pieces crafted inexactly

    Against this predictability and contrivance stand the occasional rhythm to the words, the touches of whimsy, a few...

    23 April 2023 12:01 AM IST

    The coronavirus is a family of viruses that can cause a range of illnesses in humans including common cold and more severe forms like SARS and MERS, which are life threatening.Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | Viruses & nukes: Will we wake up in time or stew?

    A green humanoid figure about two feet high stepped on to the ladder and descended to the ground

    2 April 2023 12:10 AM IST

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