Krishna Shastri Devulapalli is a writer, columnist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and illustrator/cartoonist. His columns have appeared in The Hindu, Scroll and Deccan Chronicle. He has worked in publishing as book designer, cover designer, children’s book- and school textbook illustrator, besides as writer of textbooks and original children’s stories. His books include the novels Ice Boys in Bell-bottoms (HarperCollins), Jump Cut (HarperCollins) and Sentimental Spy (Juggernaut), the non-fiction work How To Be A Literary Sensation (HarperCollins), the co-edited anthology Madras on My Mind: A City in Stories (HarperCollins) and a successfully staged play, Dear Omana: Notes On How To Be A Literary Sensation. His book of personal essays on culture, The Artful Dodger, is forthcoming.