Column: The Good Life: for Mint Lounge
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.
My First Podcast
Charlotte visited from Boston and inspired me to do something that I have long been wanting to do. Aditya Mhatre of Indicast told me to set it up at archive.org I recorded the piece using Apple's built in Garage Band program. Didn't have a mike or any of the other audio set ups so not sure of the sound quality. Both Charlotte and I were nervous and I guess it shows. But I am pretty kicked about recording my first podcast and hope it will be the first of many. Thank you, Aditya Mhatre of The Indicast Podcast Network. Check [...]
Labour Reform for The National
In this week's column, I interviewed labour reform expert, Manish Sabharwal about the future of employment in India. You can see the piece by clicking here India must remove shackles to achieve true labour reform Shoba Narayan Last Updated: Feb 27, 2011 A few months ago Manish Sabharwal, the chairman of TeamLease Services, India's leading staffing company, was in Rajasthan for a job fair. As always, long lines of young men and women stood, resume in hand, wanting to be hired for a job - any job. One of the young men pleaded that he needed to work to support [...]
Feedback Section
Dear Class: A word about my blog. I have included my teaching stint at IIM because I am proud of the caliber of the students who I taught. Two, I wanted to document it. And three, it is a way of marketing the course for next year's IIM batch. So far, only one student had privacy concerns which I am sensitive about. If any of you have issues about this class being on my blog, please let me know at the wine dinner and I will make the section "private." As we near our term, I have three requests for [...]
Project Details
Dear Class: The final project submission is on April 28th from 9 to 2. Sandeep is organizing the line-up. Each of you will get ten minutes to make a presentation on your project. Two questions came up. 1. The final presentation : Will you be rating / assigning marks based on the same? 2. Is a final report required or the content prepared for the 10 minute presentation would suffice? As Malcolm Gladwell says in "Blink," you can figure out a lot about a person in just a few seconds. So yes, the final presentation is everything. I will be [...]