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

    9 March 2020 5:05 PM IST

    I was leading our two dogs to the beach for our regular evening walk when I heard them discuss me. He doesnt like us, the older one, Fudge, told Wonder, the baby. (Photo: Pixabay)Opinion
    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.

    2 Feb 2020 4:29 AM IST

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

    29 Dec 2019 2:17 AM IST

    It has also invigorated a particularly fertile (normative) debate among liberal/progressive sections of the commentariat on the value, if any, the march may serve towards the democratisation of the Pakistani state, especially considering the regressive and exclusionary tendencies that tend to populate Islamist politics in the country.Opinion
    As Pakistan flounders, try a measure of grace

    Finally, the Pakistani response to India’s Kashmir move sparked off a series of separatist threats.

    1 Dec 2019 1:39 AM IST

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

    3 Nov 2019 2:16 AM IST

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