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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.
    Shashi Warrier | How to avoid being spoiled by your AIColumnists
    Shashi Warrier | How to avoid being spoiled by your AI

    Christmas Day dawned bright and pleasant, and, as usual, friends dropped in. First in was a lady, a professor...

    5 Jan 2025 12:12 AM IST

    Book Review | Misleading title, fun treatiseBooks
    Book Review | Misleading title, fun treatise

    The subtitle of the book is a bit misleading: it should have been “Food, Abhishek Banerjee, Economics, and...

    4 Jan 2025 1:12 PM IST

    Book Review | Every slave’s heavenBooks
    Book Review | Every slave’s heaven

    James the narrator and Jim the slave are as chalk and cheese; James is cerebral and educated while Jim is skilled but...

    14 Dec 2024 1:00 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | The reign of the business modelColumnists
    Shashi Warrier | The reign of the business model

    A couple living nearby, Shobha and Vineet, both scientists, dropped in a few weeks after a visit to Varanasi...

    8 Dec 2024 12:11 AM IST

    Book Review | M.S. Golwalkar: A life built on liesBooks
    Book Review | M.S. Golwalkar: A life built on lies

    This is one of the most detailed biographies available of M.S. Golwalkar, the RSS’s second chief, who,...

    16 Nov 2024 1:10 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | The pitfalls of buying onlineColumnists
    Shashi Warrier | The pitfalls of buying online

    No matter how old I get, I don’t like to admit I’m a coward. But then, lots of things I fear are becoming more...

    3 Nov 2024 12:12 AM IST

    Book Review | Who is an Indian anyway?Books
    Book Review | Who is an Indian anyway?

    Perhaps the most revealing story in this book is that of Partha Banerjee, son of a devoted member of the...

    19 Oct 2024 1:06 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | Israel, Palestine: Whose land is it & who is right?Columnists
    Shashi Warrier | Israel, Palestine: Whose land is it & who is right?

    Raghavan, my ex-professor friend, called the other day to ask if he could he drop in. “Sure!” I said. “Any...

    6 Oct 2024 12:12 AM IST

    Book Review | Valour unlimited from the battlefields of 1965Books
    Book Review | Valour unlimited from the battlefields of 1965

    The first thing the careful reader might notice about this book is that the opening section offers some...

    28 Sept 2024 12:46 PM IST

    Shashi Warrier | Of politics, lies and citizenly expectationsColumnists
    Shashi Warrier | Of politics, lies and citizenly expectations

    A discussion over drinks reveals differing views on Bangladesh's politics, historical parallels, and political...

    1 Sept 2024 12:02 AM IST

    Jadu seems destined to succeed. His mother, pregnant with him, survives a cobra bite, delivers him, and, in later years, delivers two more children, both girls, one of whom dies after a mysterious encounter with a fox . DC ImageBooks
    Book Review | The '30s-born Bihari man's best life

    Book Review | The '30s-born Bihari man's best life

    13 July 2024 5:27 PM IST

    In my better moments, I even tried to follow Americas presidential debates, but reality intruded. It was painful enough having to listen to ones own politicians boasting on TV watching some other countrys politicians do it was as inviting a prospect as a visit to the dentist. (Image: DC)Opinion
    Shashi Warrier | The debate of all debates & India

    Reflecting on US presidential debates, the author dreams of Indian prime ministerial candidates engaging in similarly...

    7 July 2024 12:00 AM IST

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