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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.
    Yes, I thought, smiling back. They do no harm, and often expose themselves.Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | The bureaucrat’s other deceptions...

    There was something about him that commanded my respect, so I did as he said

    8 Aug 2021 1:08 AM IST

    Elections are also being held for 117 MPTC seats in 26 mandals across the district, with a total of 427 candidates in the fray. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | To keep power, redouble effort, hire triple agents

    Statistics need not have all the answers when it comes to people and politics

    11 July 2021 12:00 AM IST

    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 4:18 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 4:23 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 7:41 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 4:25 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 7:36 AM IST

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    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 4:25 AM IST

    On Sunday evening, Venkata, a yoga campaigner for over three decades of Bengaluru have handed over the certificates to those qualified to the level of becoming yoga teachers.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 5:53 PM IST

    Autorickshaws parked along a road during a sunday lockdown imposed by the government in Bengaluru. PTI photoOpinion
    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

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