Shoba Narayan has written about food, travel, fashion, art and her native India for many publications. They include Condenast Traveler (US edition), W, The National, Destinasian, Gourmet, Time, Silkroad, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Town & Country, British Airways Highlife, Cathay Pacific’s Discovery, Singapore Airlines’ Silverkris, Knowledge@Wharton, Departures, Food & Wine, Saveur, Newsweek, Beliefnet and House Beautiful, among others.
She is a weekly columnist for Mint Lounge, an Indian business daily which is affiliated with the WSJ. She writes a column for The National, based in Abu Dhabi. She does freelance features for a number of publications; and teaches a course to the Executive Post Graduate Program at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Shoba’s essays and commentaries have appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered Weekend. Her essay, The God of Small Feasts, that was published in Gourmet, won the James Beard Foundation’s MFK Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing. She is the author of a book, “Monsoon Diary: a memoir with recipes,” published by Random House (US) in 2003. Shoba graduated from the Columbia Journalism School with a Master of Science degree. The school awarded her a Pulitzer Travelling Fellowship given to the top three graduating students in the class. She can be reached at shoba@shobanarayan.com For a more detailed bio, click here
Shoba ji,
I stumbled upon this page by looking on the web for opportunities in travel writing. And I am so impressed by your work and credentials.
Will visit here regularly now. Keep up the good work. And I may ask you for some advice one of these days.
Good luck to you!
Thanks, Naina.
Dear Shoba ji,
You are good at everything I could possibly dream about just being into.
May you never stop at your work and keep inspiring people by just being what you are and doing what you do.
Love.
Thank you, Gunjan. I sent you an email too.
Dear Shoba,
I just finished devouring your Monsoon Diary and enjoyed every scrumptious dish and delight! Your deft descriptions of places, people and the preciousness of all of India left me satisfied with morsels of my own to indulge and savor whenever I feel homesick – not for a land and culture from which I was raised, but for one that feels as much as “home” as any other I can think of!
Namaste Sister Shoba and thank you. I have been inspired to delve deeper into my love of cooking and have been fortified in my endeavors by your wonderful recipes and stories.
With gratitude,
Laura
Oh, my! Thank you Laura. How kind of you
Hi Shoba,
A sheer serendipity,if I may say, in stumbling upon your blog. I enjoyed reading some of your thoughts, observations and anecdotes that just resonated with me. I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for more than twenty years now. Love to travel, passionate about food..and wine! and B’lore is definetely my place if I were ever to move back!
Great blog! great talent! wish you great success!
Thanks a lot, Gayatri. My husband went to U.Mich at Ann Arbor. Lovely university town
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Hi, any way to follow you on Facebook?
my wall on unnikrishnan nair
Yes, I am on Facebook, Manali.
Great site Shoba Ji. I just loved every corners. Wish you more success.
Thanks, Sourish
I feel sympathy for your nephews and nieces, who are disinterested in Temples, prayers, the Sanatha culture, and rituals..
. Though I grew up in Communist enviornment, I had a strong spiritual upbringing simultaneously. It was a contradiction, However, I could see the relevance of Hinduism thru Communism as Chapter 15 and 16 of Communist Doctrine was the word to word translation of Kautilya/Manu Smrithi.
I have three daughters born and raised in USA. I initiated them into our Sanathana Dharma and Dravidian cultural heritage. I inculcated in them my family traditions, values.and vegetarianism. I was not unmindful of their autonomy to make choices. But my role of guide was at their tender young age.They became ardent believers. One among them turned out to be aethyst, when she was 14. She argued with me for hours quoting Karl Marx, Nietshe, Manu and Muhammad.But when she went to Medical school, she turned to a staunch believer and climbed Thirupathi and visited Guruvayur few times. She is well versed in Classical Music and accomplished Mohini Attam and Kathakali artist.
It is clear that your siblings did not do the home work, and that deriliction contributed to a disastrous confusion in those young minds, and loss of their cultural identity . You cannot criticise building of more temples, for the lack of interest of youngsters like your nephews The temples are essential for those youngsters like my daughters. Your baggie pants wearing nephews are not the face of the Hindus here. They are the typical South Indian Brahmins, who are not interested in Sambarsadam-Thairsadam eating brides/grooms, and falling for superior
mates. At some points the Brahmins have double face -one belonging to superior caste and other being the champion of denial.
Shoba-ji,
I congratulate you on your wonderful blog.
Thank you very much, Lakshmi-ji
Unni,
You don’t know that your Mohini-attam-ing, Kathali-ful isn’t off painting her head blue and Mamboing on the weekend any more than you know whose dereliction of duty is responsible for Shoba’s cousins, such as they are. Nor can you speak about confusion – they (“we”) are called ABCD for a reason. Your rebellion may’ve been supported by the state, but their state is what drives their rebellion. Best keep them stones in your pocket. (No pun.)
later,
Reena
I love you website!
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