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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Profile: filmmaker and entrepreneur
This is the story of synchronicity in the lives of a snake-loving filmmaker and a bird-loving entrepreneur who joined hands to work for nature conservation
Shekar Dattatri (left), an award-winning filmmaker, and Ramki Sreenivasan, an entrepreneur and wildlife photographer.
Profile of a Samaritan and a Scion
The word that most people use to describe Vandana is “selfless”. The word that most people use to describe Arathi is “balanced”. Vandana doesn’t think she is altruistic or selfless. Mental health is very personal to her. “I have bipolar disorder,” she says. “I am on meds. I used to cut myself as a teenager. Work gives me sanity.”
Read MoreNandan Nilekani profile
THE (APPLIED) IDEAS MAN The (applied) IDEAS man Shoba Narayan Share Tweet First Published: Fri, Aug 01 2008. 11 24 PM IST The big picture: (top, from left) K. Dinesh, Roy Eapen Jacob and Nilekani in Tampa, Florida; (left) Nilekani’s book, Imagining India, will release in November. Updated: Sun, Aug 03 2008. 05 38 PM IST Bangalore:…
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Profiles of Unusual Partnerships
I started a new series of profiles for Mint. The first three are running over three weeks– on Friday– and then it will be once a month. If you know any professionals who have unusual interests and partnerships, please let me know. Introducing a new series: Profiles of Unusual Partnerships. Where two worlds, and two people come…
Read MoreVinita Bali
A Profile of Vinita Bali– we eat her Brittania Ragi biscuits at home these days.
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Profile of Sabyasachi
Sabyasachi, the revivalist businessman His style icons are strong, self-confident people who don’t need his clothes to enhance their identity The Good life | Shoba Narayan Clad in a khadi kurta-pyjama and Ferragamo flats, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, 37, is having lunch at the ITC Sonar, Kolkata. It is 4pm. We are at the coffee shop. He orders lal…
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I spent two days hanging around Sabysachi. He’s an interesting man. Here is a story about him that appeared in The National. Also pasted below. The sari warrior Shoba Narayan Nov 26, 2011 The fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee is sitting on the floor of his sprawling workshop in Kolkata, surrounded by 10 people. All around…
Read MoreThree in Biotech
Three in Biotech We interviewed her at Biocon and photographer Mallik Katakol came with an “umbrella” to focus the light on her to shoot her for this piece and the other Work/Life that I did on her.
Read MoreNadir Godrej Profile for Discovery
This ran in Cathay Pacific inflight magazine, Discovery. And the publication date, May 2011. Nadir Godrej Profile
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