Column: The Good Life: for Mint Lounge
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Tone of voice for Mint Lounge
This week's column for Mint Lounge about how you say what you say. Click here for Mint's website Pasted below Posted: Thu, Mar 17 2011. 8:39 PM IST Columns What does your email say about you? In today’s geographically diffused world when much of our interaction is through email and social networks, online tone becomes especially important The Good Life | Shoba Narayan Kiran Gupta is a Mumbai-based top executive of a multinational firm. For the last two years, he has travelled the world to boost his company’s revenue at enormous personal cost. Some time ago, his contract came up [...]
Lessons in Rajat Gupta’s phone call
Lessons in Rajat Gupta's phone call 3 min read . Updated: 18 Apr 2011, 03:10 PM ISTThe Good life | Shoba Narayan Here is a podcast that I did right after the Rajat Gupta tapes leaked for Indicast. Here is a column I wrote about Gupta. I must have re-written this piece a million times. Here it is at Mint's page. Here it is, copied below. There is a Sanskrit saying that I grew up hearing, Vinasha kaleshu viparitha buddhi. My grandfather used it to sketch out doomsday scenarios, the idea being that [...]
Selling Cars in India for The National
My editor, Rupert Wright, liked this piece, which means (sigh!) that I am making some headway in this business writing thing. Click here to read it at The National. Here it is below. Name calling and foreign dominance - selling cars in India is a specialised art Shoba Narayan Last Updated: Mar 13, 2011 When we bought our first car after moving to India a few years ago, we were torn between the Toyota Innova and the locally produced Mahindra Scorpio. We visited the Toyota showroom, took a test drive, discussed specs and wrote a cheque for 100,000 rupees (Dh8,137) [...]
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw profile for Silkroad, Dragonair, Cathay Pacific
Some months ago, I went to Biocon to interview Kiran Mazumdar Shaw for a profile. With me was photographer, Mallik Katakol. We were photographing her for two stories for the same magazine: one a profile on her work-life balance, and another for a piece on biotech. The "Three in Biotech," came out earlier and I have posted it under Silkroad. But this work/life profile just came out and it is here. Kiran Shaw profile
Sam Gosling Interview
Here is a podcast I uploaded in which I interviewed Professor Sam Gosling via Skype. The archive.org page is here. You have to click on 9.3 MB Click here for the podcast
Full Stop India
Thank you, Chris Chopp, for your kind words in Full Stop India
Introductory Podcast
It took me ten days to record this one because I wasn't really sure what it was about. Finally, I decided to stop fussing about making it perfect and simply decided to try out this new and exciting medium. I am posting it here to remind myself of how bad my first podcast was. Of course, I am assuming that I get better with more ones. Click here to go to my archive.org page and then click on 8.3MB Or click here to go directly to my podcast
Sleepovers for The National M magazine
I am part of a rotating group of columnists who write for The National's M magazine. My editor, Rick Arthur has the courteousness of a Southern gentleman but having never met him, I don't know if he is American or not. A teenage daughter's sleepover can fray a mother's nerves Shoba Narayan Last Updated: Feb 23, 2011 My 14-year-old daughter, Ranjini, wants to go for a sleepover. This isn't a simple proposition in my household. I am generally against sleepovers. This, I believe, is an Eastern attitude, and comes from the tradition of joint families, with all their incestuous complications. [...]
Monsoon Diary in Florida
Author Shoba Narayan stands as a shining example of the writers’ axiom: Write what you know. Her just-published first book, “Monsoon Diary: A Memoir With Recipes” (Villard, $22.95), recalls the Indian-born writer’s childhood, her struggle to convince her parents to send her to a U.S. college and her arranged marriage. Narayan will make two appearances in Fort Myers on Saturday to read from, and autograph copies of, her book.