Travel. Food. Culture. Luxury
Delighted to announce that my new book. The Milk Lady of Bangalore: an Unexpected Adventure Will be out on January 23 2018 in the US. Published by the fantastic Algonquin Books. Look at the cool GIF they did for the book.
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Sandhotel is situated in the heart of Reykjavik’s hip shopping street, Laugavegur, and is bordered by Iceland’s oldest gentleman’s tailor and a cult bakery. Warm staff and thoughtful touches including a mobile phone, and chic comfortable rooms with locally sourced organic toiletries, make it a great place to stay.
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The 39-year-old chef’s Bangkok restaurant Gaggan, which claimed the top spot in the list of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants for the third time in a row, is all set to close in 2020.
Shoba Narayan brings to you a taste of his new avatar
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In India, every community offers their own style of covetable bangles, earrings, necklaces and anklets
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A Quest to Master the Art of Henna.
Shoba Narayan sets out to hone her mehendi craft
Casting aside the yoga of her youth, Shoba Narayan turns to China’s martial arts to tame her wild emotions and get six-pack abs in the bargain.
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What woman can’t use some lessons in feminine allure? Shoba Narayan travels to Kyoto to pick up some tips from the mastersthe city’s renowned geishas. Trust usthere’s much more to Japan’s most enduring icons than white face-paint and a bee-stung pout
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It’s nothing if not a city of contrasts. It’s ancient and modern, dirt poor and filthy rich
Shoba Narayan captures its contrasts
Shoba Narayan is a journalist and author. Her interests are travel, food, nature, wine, culture, art and luxury. She is the author of four books
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Deccan Herald’s Spectrum supplement is a favourite of mine because it covers gardening, archeology, seeds, organic farming, science…the spectrum as the name says. Delighted that they featured a Q&A about the book. Supplied the photo myself. Selfie in a sari
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This is happening right now in many Indian families. The NRIs want to plan months in advance and the Indians cannot even plan the next week. It all depends on whether the plumber shows up 🙂 We aren’t a commitment phobic people. We are just interdependent on multiple moving parts.
In the Abilene Paradox, a group does something that nobody wants to do because each person thinks that everyone else wants to do it!
Out of all the things an #author can write about #Bangalore, @ShobaNarayan decided to title her non-fiction book, ‘The Cows of Bangalore’. We were just as curious as you and asked her why. Here’s what she had to say –
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Unlike BJP, Congress doesn’t hit below the belt: Divya Spandana Ahead of Karnataka elections, Congress social media head Divya Spandana in an interview spoke of giving the grand old party a new and young voice and BJP a run for its money Last Published: Fri, May 11 2018. 07 01 PM IST Shoba Narayan Divya Spandana…
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Come summer and I think of the time my grandmother and I got drunk together. Our libation was the sap of the palmyra tree and it appeared like clockwork this time of year. Called padaneer in Tamil and neera up North, this sap of the Borassus flabellifer tree tasted of jaggery, coconut, and water. The men who sold it to us insisted that it had “no kick,” but was full of “strength and vitamins.”
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Living our lives on social media may be great for our personal brand, but it also means giving up a bit of our soul
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For the lovely interview here and below
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When do you become an adult? People have different answers for this. Some say that they become adults when they leave home for college, when they make decisions on their own. Others link it to their first kiss, or more prosaically, their first paycheck. One friend said that she became an adult when her parents died.
My parents’ relationship is beyond the realm of words or date nights or flowers on anniversaries. Their bond is primal.
The best chargers are those that you don’t have to think about. By which I mean that they ought to juice up quickly, hold their charge till that emergency moment when you need backup.
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Living our lives on social media may be great for our personal brand, but it also means giving up a bit of our soul
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