Column: The Good Life: for Mint Lounge
Little India Review
Hot Stuff Review of Monsoon Diary. By Hema Nair | November 5, 2003 Monsoon Diary A Memoir With Recipes by Shobha Narayan Villard Books, New York, N. Y. 2003, pp. 223.Shobha Narayan is no stranger to the readers of Little India. Her memories of a cross country road trip from New York to Los Angeles that she took with husband and her grandmother, a strict vegetarian, was published in the magazine a few years back and resonated with many readers. How many of us have not stood glumly in the midst of yet another bustling reststop food court debating between the indigestion quotient [...]
List of columns in The National, Abu Dhabi
I recently became a business columnist for The National in Abu Dhabi. My pieces appear every Sunday. It's challenging but keeps my juices flowing. My editor, Rupert Wright is an Englishman who has a fine instinct for how to make a piece better without removing the 'writerly' voice. Here are the first few that appeared. Cameron puts on a show of the best of British in India 07/31/10 Britain’s prime minister David Cameron was in India a few days ago and the contrast with other visiting leaders could not have been more obvious. Canny advertisers are switched on to changing [...]
WSJ: The Indian Book Ceremony
Attending a book reading in Bangalore recently, I was struck by how different such events are in India from those in America, and how the contrasting styles epitomize the two cultures.
One Family’s Journey back home.
Knowledge @ Wharton has been one of my most satisfying journalistic experiences. My editor, Mukul Pandya, sits in Philadelphia at the Wharton School. He has taken chances on me and allowed me to write pieces that aren't an obvious fit for a business publication but ended up getting a lot of gratifying feedback for both K@W and for me. I am listing below all the pieces I've done for them and will keep adding to this page, and well as upload separate pieces. I start with what I call my magnum opus-- the Return to India piece I did for [...]
List of Essays in The National, Abu Dhabi
I've done a number of pieces for The National in Abu Dhabi. The editors-- a mix of Brits and Americans-- are really nice and I enjoy writing for them. Since I am too lazy to upload them one by one, here is what I've done so far. If you click on the title, it will take you to the piece. Cameron puts on a show of the best of British in India 07/31/10 Britain’s prime minister David Cameron was in India a few days ago and the contrast with other visiting leaders could not have been more obvious. Canny advertisers [...]
Financial Times Weekend: Singapore
How creative chefs are transforming Singapore's food scene
NR Narayana Murthy profile: for Silkroad magazine: Dragonair/Cathay Pacific
Work/liFE 寫意人生 20 Silkroad FEBRUARY 2010 Meet the billionaire businessman who likes to spend his time – and money – helping those less privilegedN.R. Narayana Murthy is Chairman and Chief Mentor at Infosys, the hugely successful IT company he co-founded in 1981. N.R. Narayana Murthy於 1981年與友人創辦了Infosys， I n 1 9 74 , when N.R. Narayana Murthy, a co-founder of multinational IT company Infosys, was 28 years old, he was hitchhiking from Paris to his hometown of Mysore. At Nis, a border town between then Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, he caught the Sofia Express and struck up a conversation with a girl [...]
For Silverkris on Tamilnadu
What makes Tamilnadu a special and tropical melody?
Sleepless in Singapore | Condenast Traveler US |
Staid, chaste, strict, small—Singapore has heard it all. But this island-nation of 4.2 million people has one thing going for it (many things, actually, but we'll get to that later): Singapore is a sure fling. Having lived in Singapore for two years, I have returned wanting to revel in it as a tourist—to see it all and do it all within forty-eight hours.
Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie: TV shows that I was part of
Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie I was involved in a TV show called Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie. It is an award-winning show aired on Public Televsion stations all across the US. My job was to find experts who would appear several episodes. This is the second season of the show. The first season is available from the itunes store for free. Anyone interested in food should watch it. Here are some of the episodes in which I was involved with blurbs from the show. 1. Southern India: the Spice of Life Join us as we experience the flavors [...]