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About the AuthorKrishna Shastri Devulapalli
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli is a humour writer, novelist, columnist and screenwriter
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | About how proud I was last weekOpinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | About how proud I was last week

    Last week, a dear friend whom we hadn’t met in a while invited us out for lunch. He thought going to a restaurant...

    27 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Stop with the food fetishes, seriously!Opinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Stop with the food fetishes, seriously!

    I was happy to note that Season 2 of The Bear had dropped (as everything seems to these days). Like many, I enjoyed...

    9 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The needy universe of social media parentsOpinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The needy universe of social media...

    The other day, I saw this post by a #ProudMother who was Facebook-felicitating her only daughter for completing...

    11 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Do you know who we are, Europe?Opinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Do you know who we are, Europe?

    As we speak, in a cabin on the Swiss Alps, unmindful of the howling blizzard outside, five men sporting thick jackets...

    7 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How to leave home a cynic and return an optimistOpinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How to leave home a cynic and return an...

    People walk for health. People walk to relax. My walks, alas, are battles, with me playing patient mediator between two...

    9 April 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Synonyms that so often are antonyms insteadOpinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Synonyms that so often are antonyms...

    The other day, while speaking of a certain larger-than-lifeless politician, when a friend referred to him as powerful,...

    26 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

    So how do you identify a writer? Give her a mirror. If she holds it up to society, shes a writer. (DC File Image)Opinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How to recognise a writer

    Not too long ago, an agitated writer got in touch. (Calm writers don’t usually approach us.) The writer was...

    26 Feb 2023 1:51 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Why I just love literature festivalsOpinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Why I just love literature festivals

    Sigh, this is the season of literature festivals, and I just love them to death. In my dozen or so years as one of...

    29 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Education secretary Vakati Karuna stated that generic cautionary messages have been conveyed to schools, instructing students to maintain social distance, wash their hands frequently, and wear masks in crowded spaces. \No specific guidelines have been issued. (DC)Opinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How to stay safe in the coming wave

    If the experts, and by that I mean the same folks who told us how to keep Covid at bay with brass utensils and...

    1 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How Mallikarjun Babu’s secret weapon backfiredOpinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | How Mallikarjun Babu’s secret weapon...

    To impress girls in the ’80s, you absolutely needed two things: a music system and wheels. Mallikarjun Babu, that...

    11 Dec 2022 1:25 AM IST

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    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | What’s old isn’t necessarily gold

    Any wisdom that’s handed down, I’ve always suspected. Like the goodness of Mom’s cooking, for...

    13 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

    Fiction will be alive and kicking as long as we and our imaginations are alive. I think its people who are in the book business who need to check their pulses. Representational Image/DCOpinion
    Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Fiction is dead.... Long live fiction

    “Fiction is in a dismal state,” said a well-known literary agent

    16 Oct 2022 7:37 AM IST

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