Column: The Good Life: for Mint Lounge
Reading at Catholic Club, Bangalore
I am doing a reading at iBrowse Book at the Catholic Club of Bangalore and would be delighted if you or interested friends could come. The email below explains everything. When: Friday, November 9th at 6 PM. Where: Catholic Club, Bangalore. Museum Road http://www.catholiclub.com/ Please could you circulate it to those interested in coming. It is free and open to the public. Thanks Shoba Begin forwarded message: From: Marianne de Nazareth n <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Guest author at iBrowse Book Club? Hi Shobha, This is how iBrowse works. Every second Friday of the month we get tog in the [...]
Chinese martial arts
Mint has revamped its website, which is great, but it has really messed up the URLs of my columns. Now all my previous columns come in a "page not found" section. Rather than going back and correcting every link, I am taking down my Mint "category" in the blog. The latest one about Chinese martial arts is available here.
About Akram Khan and his dance for the FT
Last updated: October 6, 2012 12:09 am Take on tradition By Shoba Narayan Akram Khan was ostracised when he first brought contemporary dance to India. Now, he’s treated like a rock star Akram Khan, one of Britain’s favourite and finest contemporary dancers, is back on stage at Sadler’s Wells, in London, after a prolonged period of inactivity due to a severe injury to his Achilles tendon in January. He was fit enough to appear with his eponymous dance company, which he formed in 2000, at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony in July, and then set himself what was probably a greater [...]
Bangalore Mirror Interview
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The dramatic and soulful orchestra men: for Mint Lounge
Listen to Mendelssohn while you read this piece The dramatic and soulful orchestra men What exactly does an orchestra conductor do with his eyes closed? Shoba Narayan First Published: Thu, Sep 27 2012. 06 00 PM IST The Symphony Orchestra of India’s last show of the season is on Sunday. If you are lucky enough to live in Mumbai, I hope you can catch the performance. They are performing a concert of orchestral operatic favourites which—although not a personal favourite—is sure to be good. Opera is hard for listeners steeped in Indian classical music, mostly because the singing sounds [...]
Vegetarian McDonalds
In land of the holy cow, not even the fast food is sacred Shoba Narayan Sep 24, 2012 McDonalds, the fast-food chain, is making plans to open an all-vegetarian outlet in the foothills of the Himalayas. The outlet will cater to Hindu pilgrims visiting the shrine of Vaishno Devi, a powerful female goddess. Plans are also afoot to open another all-vegetarian McDonald’s outlet near the Golden Temple of Amritsar, hallowed ground for the Sikh community. Nor is the king of fast food alone in going veggie in India. Subway has two all-vegetarian outlets – one in Delhi and another [...]
Stanley Pinto
In Journalism-school, one of the things they drill into you is the difference between a private person and public figure. A private person is given all kinds of allowances when it comes to writing a piece. A public figure, less so. You handle a private person (the average Joe Bloe) with kid-gloves because the assumption is that they aren't used to dealing with the press. You run their quotes by them; you make sure that they understand the context in which they are being used and so forth. Public figures don't merit as much hand-holding. Sometimes thought, the lines between [...]
Cartoons
The problem with Aseem Trivedi’s cartoons The problem with today’s cartoons and Trivedi’s in particular is that cartoons have lost their sense of humour Shoba Narayan First Published: Thu, Sep 20 2012. 05 05 PM IST Aseem Trivedi after being arrested by the police in Mumbai. Photo: AP. RELATED Updated: Thu, Sep 20 2012. 06 47 PM IST First Published: Thu, Sep 20 2012. 05 05 PM IST Aseem Trivedi after being arrested by the police in Mumbai. Photo: AP. Updated: Thu, Sep 20 2012. 06 47 PM IST Truth be told, I didn’t find Aseem Trivedi’s cartoons all that good. Like [...]
Dance and healing: Akram Khan for The National Abu Dhabi
Dance is important for audiences to experience healing, says Akram Khan Shoba Narayan Sep 17, 2012 Creating a dance performance for the Olympics was "humbling and challenging because I had to touch people - you can't do that with superficial pieces", says the British-Bangladeshi dancer Akram Khan, who choreographed a prominent section of the London Olympics opening ceremony. Khan is in India on a six-city tour as part of The Park's New Festival 2012, for which he and his company performed Gnosis, based on the Indian epicMahabharata, in which Queen Gandhari blindfolds her eyes to imitate her blind husband. The stunning [...]