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Category: Columns

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A wordsmith’s treasure trove

Post author By Shilpi Madan
Post date August 28, 2022

A wordsmith’s treasure trove brings in a revisit to every emotion and experience

Tags #column, #wordsmith

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The Written Word has a Great Impact

Post author By Shilpi Madan
Post date August 16, 2022

So write responsibly. There is a certain sense of self censorship you must exercise while penning your own tome of creative freedom in your written word

Tags #column, #salmanrushdie, #writer

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To my big little teachers, with love

Post author By Shilpi Madan
Post date July 24, 2022

My big little teachers are my kids. I have been learning from them for free, since they were born. Surreptitiously, openly and shamelessly

Tags #littlementors, #mentors, #teachers, children

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Chat shows, a damp squib

Post author By Shilpi Madan
Post date July 19, 2022

Do we have chat shows in India that kind of make the cut, with on point, thematic, sarcastic jokes; timely puns, witty repartee? Nah. Celebs need to move beyond their oiled PR machinery, to be able to speak their heart and mind and win us over

Tags #chatshows, #hotstar, #karanjohar, #koffeewithkaran

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VFX is the new superhero

Post author By Shilpi Madan
Post date July 8, 2022

VFX is clearly the new superhero with special effects netting in audiences worldwide

Tags #KGF2, #movies, #RRR, #southfilms, #vfx

Shilpi Madan

A compulsive, non conformist wordsmith. A sybaritic connoisseur of all 'tis epicurean. An insatiable sybarite. An incurable book-chomper. For me, there is nothing more powerful than the excitement of shaping the written word. I simply live to write.

Shilpi Madan is one of India’s most experienced, award winning luxury and lifestyle journalists and has written over 2000 published articles and features dipping into food, fashion, travel, decor, health and fitness, parenting, education, trends…together with interviews and cover stories with celebrities and achievers.