The Dalai Lama carries no phone. He does what is important and has shrugged off the fake-busyness that the rest of us labour under
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Travelling with parents part 3: Unexpected brushes with the ordinary
When abroad, there’s never any warning about how septuagenarian parents will behave BRUNCH Updated: Sep 01, 2018 22:36 IST Shoba Narayan Hindustan Times Shoba’s mother spent the entire trip in Singapore driving the electric buggy, having a blast(Shoba Narayan ) Driving a self-driven electric buggy reserved for senior citizens at one kilometre an hour may not…
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Travelling with Parents Part 2
A fallen walking stick and a wheelchair can change all perspectives
My father dropped his walking stick into a railway track right after he got photographed with Narendra Modi. The wax version of course, at the Madame Tussauds in Sentosa Island.
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Eating butter chicken at 32,000 feet
When I decided to take my parents on a holiday last month, I didn’t know where we would go, what we would do, or how I would handle their fragile health. But I knew one thing: my folks were going to fly business class.
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Interview with the Dalai Lama
Some things, you strive for. Some things happen because of divine grace. You know what they say– the universe conspires to make things happen. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a person like no other in today’s world. Statesman, Nobel Laureate, spiritual leader of the Tibetans who view him as God, or at least the manifestation of Avalokiteshvara, the Boddhisattva of compassion. After assuming this mantle at age four, the Dalai Lama has become a global teacher, part-time politician, leader of exiled Tibetans, right-royal celebrity, torch-carrier of a tradition dating back millennia, and perhaps most important to him, Buddhist monk.
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Save your marriage. Plant a tree
Yes, that might actually work in a world where phubbing has becoming a relationship killer
Using a cellphone in bed is a common point of discord among couples
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Are you a texter or a talker?
I guess we text with some and talk with some, but this business of going to great lengths not to make a phone call seems a bit much. Perhaps I should actually make phone calls to unsuspecting friends and try to have a conversation. Here is my piece in today’s Brunch
The youth of today will go to extraordinary lengths not to have a conversation
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Wine: 100 Point Dinner
Dining with the perfect wine An amateur taster’s notes from the 100-Point dinner in Bengaluru, which featured some top-reviewed wines Last Published: Sat, Jun 23 2018. 12 49 PM IST Shoba Narayan The Wine Connoisseurs at the 100-Point dinner. Photos: The Wine Connoisseurs (TWC) The first wine of the evening is a 2010 vintage M…
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Has this happened to you?
We inhabit cyber space with ever-changing norms and rules. How do we keep up?
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Puneet Chhatwal profile
Journalists love scoops, and this was a good one— first interview given to a journalist and one in which he spoke very candidly. And I learned a brand I didn’t know: Cove & Co. Puneet Chhatwal: Taking ‘Tajness’ to new heights In his first media interaction since taking charge, Puneet Chhatwal. the CEO and…
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