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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.
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    Shashi Warrier | Games universities play with students

    My professor friend Raghavan dropped in with his wife a few evenings ago. Both looked downcast: indeed, so downcast that...

    12 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Health workers during a mock drill for COVID-19 preparedness, at Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | The fitness of the bystander

    Some decades ago, my father, living in our hometown in Kerala, had a heart attack in the wee hours of the morning. Since...

    12 Feb 2023 12:55 AM IST

    Cover photo of Eden: An Indian Exploration of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Lore by Devdutt PattanaikLifestyle
    Book Review | A brief history of God

    This evolving tapestry of stories linked across populations, continents and centuries is sometimes shocking but always...

    15 Jan 2023 12:29 AM IST

    Besides security checks, I was worried about the airline, for wed been reading stories about how this particular airline didnt hesitate to beat up passengers. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | In the name of flight security

    It’s strange what they do in the name of security. You don’t notice it much of the time but if you happen to...

    8 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Cover photo of Bravehearts of Bharat by Vikram Sampath (Photo by arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Folk heroes take precedence over icons, wording of title...

    The author says in his introduction that the genesis of this book lay in a meeting with a friend of his, a fellow-writer...

    11 Dec 2022 1:33 AM IST

    Many a time, click fraud can be carried out and executed by the owners of the sites in order to insincerely escalate its ad revenue.Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | The Internet limbo: Where have all the orders gone?

    When my wife and I planned a journey, I went to the railway reservation office in town to book our tickets. On the way...

    3 Dec 2022 11:55 PM IST

    Cover photo of The Education of Yuri by Jerry Pinto (Photo by arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Quasi-autobiographical & sanitised trip back to 1980s’...

    There’s a disquieting view of the country’s education system, as Yuri discovers in preparing for the tuitions that...

    20 Nov 2022 1:21 AM IST

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    Shashi Warrier | Capitalism and the future of train travel

    The other day the missus and I decided to visit relatives in Kerala. We took an early morning train, and, after...

    6 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

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    Shashi Warrier | While partying in New India, silence is golden

    Dasara (as Dussehra is called in southern India) is a big thing in this part of the world. Schools shut down for weeks,...

    9 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

    Cover page of The Inconceivable Idea of the Sun by Anil Menon. (Photo By Arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | A cleverly wound string of quirky-witty mindbenders

    It’s quirky, but then, speculative fiction, or spec-fic, tends to be so: it’s in the nature of the beast....

    4 Sept 2022 2:55 AM IST

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    Shashi Warrier | All’s fair in love and school…

    My friend Murthy dropped in without warning on the morning of August 15th. I was in the garden raising the flag on an...

    3 Sept 2022 9:58 PM IST

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    Shashi Warrier | Is the Indian govt spoiling its citizens?

    My wife and I were preparing for a visit from an old colleague and his wife, who had recently shifted to Mangalore, when...

    7 Aug 2022 12:18 AM IST

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