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About Starbucks
Starbucks has to wake up and smell the coffee in India Shoba Narayan Café Coffee Day, an Indian coffee chain, will offer serious competition to Starbucks, which aims to open 50 outlets by the end of the year. Aijaz Rahi … Continue reading
Rice
My Life: Shoba Narayan on rice Shoba Narayan Feb 1, 2012 People want different things on a cold winter night: a piping hot bowl of soup or the seductive richness of, say, foie gras. I crave steaming hot rice. … Continue reading
Posted in Food Writing, My Life column
Tagged nasi lemak, Rice, tamarind rice, thai jasmine rice
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Party Animal?
My Life: negotiating new roles as we age Shoba Narayan Jan 4, 2012 I’ve noticed a curious phenomenon: men get more introverted as they get older and women more extroverted. I see it in several of my married friends. … Continue reading
Posted in My Life column, The National
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About Christmas and Inspiration
Christmas inspiration takes a note from many cultures Shoba Narayan Dec 25, 2011 Our largely Hindu community in Bangalore, India, is practising Christmas carols and I am trawling the world for inspiration. I like the majestic rendition of Joy to … Continue reading
Kampong Glam
From durian to Kampong Glam Shoba Narayan (Writer) Sep 19, 2009 next previous It is 4pm and the Ramadan bazaar in Geylang Serai, the Malay enclave of Singapore, is bustling. Tomorrow is Hari Raya Puasa, the local name for Eid … Continue reading
Hotel Business
In the hotel business, bigger isn’t always better Shoba Narayan (Writer) Jan 27, 2010 Mohammed is afraid of losing his job. I met the middle-aged man from Kerala in Bahrain’s transit lounge. Emboldened by my few words of Malayalam, and since we … Continue reading
Fashion Story: Grasshopper
Altered notions: recycling last year’s fashions Shoba Narayan (Writer) Mar 22, 2010 next previous It is a problem that afflicts every fashion designer: what to do with last season’s clothes that didn’t sell? In India, unlike the US or Europe, … Continue reading
Posted in Arts/Fashion, Fashion, The National
Tagged Anshu, Atul Johri, Bangalore, Grasshopper, Hidden Harmony, Jason, Jason Cherian, Joe Ikareth, Savio Jon, Sonali Sattar, TransForm
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MF Hussain
India shamed as its greatest painter is driven abroad Shoba Narayan (Writer) Mar 10, 2010 India’s treasured painter Maqbool Fida Hussain officially handed over his Indian passport and became a Qatari citizen yesterday. He is never returning home and Indians should … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Arts/Fashion, The National
Tagged dance sequences, hindu fundamentalists, hindu woman, indian passport, mf hussain, religious radicals
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Parenting dilemmas
This piece is heartfelt. The problem is that I don’t see any solution to this. Sometimes, parenting seems like a crapshoot– you make certain decisions and hope they work out. My elder daughter still hasn’t asked for a dog! Did … Continue reading →