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Fiction will be alive and kicking as long as we — and our imaginations — are alive. I think it’s people who are in the book business who need to check their pulses. — Representational Image/DC

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Fiction is dead.... Long live fiction

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

16 Oct 2022 7:54 AM

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Trespassers Will Be Garlanded

Over the years, I have got used to receiving my own posts as WhatsApp forwards attributed to others

11 Sep 2022 1:00 AM

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Carpenter-backed roles and plumber’s actors

Honestly, though, film folk, you’ll have to come up with new things to say in your coming interviews

14 Aug 2022 12:15 AM

Coverpage of 'A Country Called Childhood'. (Image By Arrangement)

Book Review | Naval playing field: How post-Partition Amritsar nurtured an elegant artiste

If the time and place played a significant role in the making of Naval, one can’t discount the influence of her rich antecedents either

23 Jul 2022 10:30 PM

What would I have done if my own parting had happened now? Instead of writing weekly letters in longhand or waiting for the monthly one-hour tapes of her life in cold, distant Boston, would we have video-called each other three times a day? (Photo: Pixabay)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The uninterrupted cigarette of love

Nothing defines love, or for that matter allows you to experience love in its elemental sense, than bittersweet separation and anticipation

02 Jul 2022 11:22 PM

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The Language of Love

When people from diverse linguistic backgrounds need to communicate with each other, they will find ways

05 Jun 2022 12:59 AM

Here’s how they see us brownies: cheap, efficient, trouble-free labour.(Representational Image/ DC)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | White lies, brown noses

No one is lying sleepless and chanting the Hanuman Chalisa over our skyrocketing economic, military, yogic, and, above all, cinematic power

01 May 2022 2:42 AM

In popular culture, the male huddle has been among the most paeanized of phenomena. They even have a term for it: bromance, a genre in films even more popular than the dreaded rom-com. (Representational Image: AFP)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | #RealMenDon’tHuddle

Every horror perpetrated on every woman is born out of what we have come to accept as the male huddle, including rape.

18 Oct 2020 9:57 AM

Akbar, the Great Mughal: Why are we obsessed with the Top Ten of kings?

Devulapalli | Time to move on from mythology

How about we put history aside for a bit and brush up on reason, scientific thinking and logic instead?

06 Sep 2020 11:15 PM

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Three Short Tales On Art

In some cases, the publishing houses have been sold, lock, stock and barrel

21 Jun 2020 4:54 PM

Migrants, not adhering to social distancing norms, wait to board a train to their native places at Danapur railway station, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Patna. PTI Photo

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli: Let them have song

Why give them rice, dal and water, was his point, when we could give them life-affirming art and literature

24 May 2020 7:03 PM

‘The heroines,’ I said. ‘They get younger and younger and younger. It’s brilliant. In fact, one hero, as we speak, has delayed his comeback project because he is waiting for his heroine to be born. I think they are going in for a C-section because the teasers are out.’ ‘Hmmmm,’ said God.

10 reasons why I want to be reborn a South Hero

“I’ve seen a couple. My wi-fi has been down. The Dthritarashtra-Sanjaya Network is up for sale, as you know.”

01 Mar 2020 4:14 AM

The 861 pictures in between were of her scuba diving, kayaking, bungee jumping, kick-boxing and playing the mridangam (the last two at the same time, actually), all sans any assistive devices whatsoever.

Snake in the Mami’s shadow

Mami had got just back from the US.

19 Jan 2020 5:08 AM

Whatever the topic of conversation, in two ruthless, diabolical steps, my dad will steer the conversation to the old days turning my UHD live-stream world to a grainy sepia one rolled out of a creaky projector.

The best times I never had

Dad slyly tries to add a dash of nostalgia which he carries with him in one of those quick-release dispensers wherever he goes.

22 Dec 2019 7:19 AM

Sethumadhavan has one delightful girl and one charming boy. Lovingly named Janma Malini and Kurkuresh (perhaps by themselves, via a curt memo from the womb).

Holy cow? More like ma-minion, dad-slave

Let’s take my good friend Sethumadhavan from Chennai. Everyone knows a Sethumadhavan.

24 Nov 2019 12:00 AM

Recently there was this post: ‘Hi, Friends... wanted master cook who can prepare Mughlai dishes for my restaurant in Patna.

No humour please, we’re Indians using Facebook

Two days later, when I checked out of curiosity, there was not a single response.

27 Oct 2019 4:29 AM

World's longest and deepest rail tunnel opens in Switzerland

The first train comes out of the Gotthard Base tunnel during the opening ceremony near the town of Erstfeld, Switzerland. (Photo: AP)

02 Jun 2016 4:51 AM

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