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Shoba Narayan

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  • About
  • Books
    • The Milk Lady of Bangalore
    • Monsoon Diary
    • The Cows of Bangalore
    • Return to India
    • Katha
  • Articles
    • Travel
    • Hotels
    • Food
    • Drink
    • Arts
    • Spirituality
    • Luxury
    • Nature
    • Gadgets
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    • Profiles
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      • Quartz
      • New York Times
      • The Atlantic
      • WSJ
    • HT Media
      • HT Brunch
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      • Madame Gadgetry
    • The National
      • My Life
      • Op-ed
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  • Project LooM
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Mango season is here. #mango #fruit
A relaxed lunch. A break from the day. . . . . . . . #hijras #lgbt #lgbtq #men #women #fashion
A wonderful vintage champagne tasting at Le Cirque restaurant at the Leela, Bangalore. Here are the tasting notes that I uploaded on my page at Vivino, the app. My favorite champagne of the evening was the Bollinger RD 2002. Floral aromas of lavender, violets. Lots of berry notes. Great structure with a good balance of acidity. This was the only glass of champagne that I finished. My second favorite wine of the evening was the Veuve Cliquot La Grande Dame 2004. Was kicked to discover that both Bollinger and Veuve Cliquot are female-run houses. I wanted to like the Drappier 2005 more than I did. Because they don’t use sulfur. It was decent but not my favorite. The Don Ruinart 2002 was a stunning surprise. When we first drank it from the glass, it was restrained, even subdued with very flat aromas. All of us around the table decided that we didn’t like it. Fortunately, I didn’t finish the glass and two hours later when I smelled and tasted it again, it seemed like an amazing new champagne. Very elegant, structured, with complex notes of spices, stone fruits and light floral notes. I didn’t like the Cristal very much. Perhaps 2009 is not a great vintage for Champagne. The Dom Perignon 2004 was as you would expect. Very classic notes of brioche, butter, tobacco, and all the aromas and flavors that you can recognize anywhere. If I were to buy champagne, I would definitely buy the Bollinger again. Thank you Devesh Agarwal of the TWC for organizing such a terrific evening. . . . . . . . . . . #domperignon #cristal #champagne #drappier #veuvecliquot #ruinart #bubbly #bollinger
A foolish corn stalk arches to the sky. Hopefully offering its seeds to fleeing parakeets. Not knowing that it is but a child of leftover popcorn seeds thrown by hasty teenagers into a mud pot on my balcony. before they went to the movies. . . . . . . . #garden #gardening #corn #popcorn #outdoors #balcony
Kissing a ladybug on a jasmine flower. Clematis flower actually. . . . . . #bees #honeybee #ladybug #insects #flowers #flowerstagram #bugslife #jasmine #clematis #kiss
Sky fliers. Pond herons.
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