Sunday, Apr 28, 2024 | Last Update : 09:09 PM IST

Shashi Warrier Page-4

I sometimes share my writings with friends and publishers on WhatsApp, and I was afraid that Mark Zuckerberg would simply claim copyright on whatever I shared thus. (Representational image : AFP)

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 advice

07 Feb 2021 7:45 AM

Shashi Warrier | Gangsters, gurus and other political spirits

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

03 Jan 2021 4:24 AM

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 pay to jump them"

06 Dec 2020 7:40 AM

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.”

08 Nov 2020 4:26 AM

Week after week of staying put, with large and regular meals and plenty of snacks in between, turned my waistline into a sort of coastline. Representational Image

Shashi Warrier | JFK, yoga, and intermittent fasting

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

13 Sep 2020 5:52 PM

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

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 all cheats!

09 Aug 2020 4:32 PM

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

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 of luck

12 Jul 2020 6:05 PM

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 this life

14 Jun 2020 6:08 PM

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 otherwise you’re dead

16 May 2020 8:18 PM

A family plays football on the roof of their apartment during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown in Kolkata, on April 2, 2020. (AP)

Shashi Warrier: The power of levity in the time of lockdown

Laughter kept us sane during wars and strikes

06 Apr 2020 10:07 PM

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

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.

09 Mar 2020 5:07 PM

But that evening, when I took the dogs to the beach, we passed the old dog snoozing under the culvert and I couldn’t help wondering who was the smarter of us...

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.

02 Feb 2020 1:42 AM

The astrologer left no questions unanswered, but always offered at least a palliative when the answer was bad.

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 really controlled in our lives.

29 Dec 2019 12:26 AM

Well, it’s not innocuous by any means. In the first place, the order itself, a one-paragraph document signed by none other than Imran Khan himself, is seriously out of order. (Photo: AP)

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.

01 Dec 2019 6:58 AM

Bursting them is a sign of manhood, a sort of rite of passage for teenage boys.

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.

03 Nov 2019 1:36 AM

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 delighted to know he's alive — but definitely not well — in End of Watch.

08 Jun 2016 6:41 AM

4 of 4

Columns

Anita Katyal