Column: The Good Life: for Mint Lounge
The Good Life
I write a weekly column called "The Good Life," for Mint. It's the first time I have done a column and it has been a humbling experience. I've learnt a lot. Some pieces I like more than others. Some are extremely hard to write and I do a thousand rewrites while others come out just like that. They are available at the paper's website. I am not sure how to upload them all to this site, so for now, please click here to view my columns.
Why don’t Indians say Mea Culpa?
My first article in Mint's Main paper. Why don't Indians say "Mea Culpa?"
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?