Why be a writer if you are not going to use your most powerful weapons, which are words?

Why do writers not write – or get – letters (instead of messages with emojis) anymore?

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· May 19, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Satire: ‘I have been to nine literary festivals. It has been nine too many.’

‘I am a lit fest veteran now. I can show you the scars.’

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· Jan 27, 2019 · 08:30 am

Satire: This fantasy version of a literary panel discussion might be closer to reality than we think

In which a writer moderates a panel of his dreams – or is it nightmares?

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· Dec 09, 2018 · 12:30 pm

No, dear writer, don’t be a helicopter parent to your book (and don’t tell us how the baby was made)

‘A writer’s job is to write. And do this in privacy. And guard both the process and the output from prying eyes.’

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· Oct 07, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Satire: Why must publishers chase Priyanka Chopra and Sanjay Dutt while neglecting real writers?

In which an irate commentator says, ‘Take back the arts: say no to Chopra and Dutt.”

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· Jul 14, 2018 · 07:00 am

Once upon a time In Indian publishing: Six fantasies for 2018

Fiction is stronger than truth. Sometimes.

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· Feb 17, 2018 · 08:30 am

Women in publishing break the glass ceiling all the time. Why pick Priyanka Chopra for a lecture?

Must Bollywood become the obvious option even for that last bastion of hope – art and literature?

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· Dec 26, 2017 · 08:30 am

Lit fests are coming! Watch out for the moderator!! Or, rather, for the mad orator!!!

There’s nothing moderate about this character, claims someone who’s been at the receiving end.

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· Dec 16, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Same editors, different companies: How will Delhi publishers ever produce better books?

An author asks why publishing companies do not get fresh blood from elsewhere in the country

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· Apr 16, 2017 · 10:30 am

Why publishers shouldn’t love movie stars (or, how Bollywood is turning books into BS)

Why do publishers go weak at the knees at the thought of signing up film-stars who cannot even read a script?

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· Mar 26, 2017 · 07:30 am

Ten literary trends we’re staring at in India in 2017

A reckless set of forecasts with complete disregard of facts, and therefore likely to come true.

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· Dec 31, 2016 · 06:30 pm

Six customised cocktails for the litfest season

Why drink the same old when you can drink the same new?

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· Dec 27, 2016 · 08:30 am