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Shashi Warrier
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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 you buy a large lump of meat, cut it up before you put it in the freezer! (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | The joys, perils and disasters of cooking

    That evening, I bought a two-kilo chunk of meat along with my regular groceries

    6 Jun 2021 12:36 PM IST

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    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

    2 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

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    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,...

    4 April 2021 4:19 AM IST

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    Shashi Warrier | Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the most civilized...

    A neighbour, an amateur historian, happens to believe that all good things come from India

    7 March 2021 4:24 AM IST

    A copy of the petition, seen by Reuters, said Whatsapp was jeopardizing national security by sharing, transmitting and storing user data in another country with the information thus governed by foreign laws. (Representative Photo:AFP)Opinion
    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...

    7 Feb 2021 7:45 AM IST

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    Shashi Warrier | Gangsters, gurus and other political spirits

    There are four steps with which you deal with opposition: saama, daana, bheda, and danda

    3 Jan 2021 4:24 AM IST

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    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...

    6 Dec 2020 7:40 AM IST

    A boy plays cricket with a hockey stick as black clouds form over Prabhadevi beach in Mumbai. PTI photoOpinion
    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.

    8 Nov 2020 4:26 AM IST

    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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