Bargaining– the great Indian tradition. In HT Brunch today. JPeg below. Love the art by Parth Garg. And the full edition where Neerja Birla talks about mental health for download in the end of the page. Have a look. This Indian life by Shoba Narayan: Learning life lessons at the local bazaar Bargaining isn’t about…
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Confession: my husband is a better cook than I This Indian life by Shoba Narayan: Recipe for a relationship Struggling to cook? Phone your relatives in the ancestral village BRUNCH Updated: Apr 26, 2020 02:57 IST I am cooking at home these days, which is a disaster because I am not a good cook. My mother…
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This weekend, I have two pieces on HT Brunch. The cover story– a profile of Malavika Sarukkai , “India’s greatest living dancer,” according to art critic B.N. Goswamy, who taught me about “roma harsh” or goosebumps, when I profiled him for Mint Lounge years ago. Dance is a beautiful and holistic way to access Indian…
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Home / Brunch / This Indian life by Shoba Narayan: Love in a time of corona Think of this as a time to recalibrate your perspective on life First, the good news. The sky has never looked so clear, the air so pure. Nitrous oxide emissions from cars have fallen. Heck, the ozone layer may bridge. There is birdsong…
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This Indian life by Shoba Narayan: 27 things to do while in isolation Don’t let the Coronavirus get you down Yes, I know the meme going around. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth and King Lear during a plague. Isaac Newton discovered gravity, calculus and optics during the Great Plague of London. What are the rest of us doing? In this age…
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The writer loved the neighbourhood aunty with that unabashed sincerity of starving little kids who saw sunshine in a samosa and rainbows in the raw mango slices she fed
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Differences vanish when you embrace a person’s humanity
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Could it be that a marriage lasts because both spouses value what they have more than what they give up?
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When you move you can duplicate many aspects of your homeland….But you cannot recreate your relatives!
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White or dark, it’s all normal. All chocolate. And love is love.
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