Column: The Good Life: for Mint Lounge
Artistes are learning to pivot during pandemic
I have a problem with consuming culture virtually. I especially dislike how technology has converted live performances into flat-screen replicas. All mediums change the form. Technology for the most part diminishes the performing arts. Here is my column for HT about the performing arts. Linked to some upcoming events.
The Dr. Maya Rao Kathak and Choreography Conference 2022
Welcome to the The Dr. Maya Rao Kathak and Choreography Conference 2022 Tuesday, May 3, 2022. From 3 to 8 PM. At the Bangalore International Centre Dances, performances, lec-dems, converstations, panels About dance and how it can rejuvenate us. REJUVENESCENCE Hosted by the Natya Institute Of Kathak And Choreography. Be there amidst a community of amazing dancers, artists, filmmakers, photographers and curators. Schedule REJUVENESCENCE 3.00 PM Introduction - 3:05 PM Welcome by NIKC vice-chairperson Dr Anita Ratnam 3.15 PM Inauguration 3.20 PM Conference Chair Shoba Narayan’s inaugural address. 3.30 PM Kampni performance – Tarana RE-ACTIVATE 3:40 [...]
Review of the French Milk Lady in Le Soir
Les brèves des Livres du Soir A découvrir également. Shoba Narayan. - D.R. Par P.My et Da.Cv. Mis en ligne le 15/02/2020 à 15:00 La laitière de Bangalore ** Shoba Narayan De retour en Inde après vingt ans aux Etats-Unis, la narratrice et sa famille retrouvent des traditions oubliées. Au centre de celles-ci, la vache, porteuse de valeurs pratiques et symboliques. Bien plus qu’un animal. Le récit hésite entre des scènes aussi drôles que révélatrices et un savoir encyclopédique presque encombrant. Une lecture qui privilégie les premières fera passer un bon moment. Traduit de l’anglais (Inde) par Johanna Blayac, Mercure de [...]
French review of La Laitiere de Bangalore
Une vache dans l'ascenseur Par Jean-Claude Perrier, le 31.01.2020ROMAN/INDE 27 FÉVRIER SHOBA NARAYAN Shoba Narayan - Photo DR/MERCURE DE FRANCE Grâce à l'animal totem de l'Inde, Shoba Narayan raconte son retour au pays natal et sa vie farfelue. Cette aventure commence un jour, pour Shoba Narayan, la narratrice, dans l'ascenseur de l'immeuble moderne chic de Bangalore où elle vient d'emménager avec son mari et leurs deux filles, par sa rencontre avec une vache. Les voisins du dessus avaient invité l'animal, sacré pour les hindous, lié à Krishna et emblème du pays, à honorer et bénir leur crémaillère. A son tour, la jeune [...]
Interview with the translator of Milk Lady
Listen to the interview here 2020 |La Nuit de l’Inde - Entretien 2/3 avec Karthika Naïr, auteure et poétesse, qui publie "Le Tigre de miel" et Johanna Blayac traductrice de "La laitière de Bangalore" de Shoba Narayan.
French review of La Laitiere de Bangalore
2 livres coups de coeur pour une échappée indienne A VOIR Styles A LIRE ! Par Delphine Peras, publié le 12/03/2020 à 10:32 , mis à jour le 26/04/2020 à 10:58 "La Laitière de Bangalore", par Shoba Narayan Malgré l'annulation du Salon du Livre Paris, dont l'Inde était l'invitée d'honneur, la littérature aura toujours le dernier mot : deux écrivains à découvrir. Vachesacrée "La vache, en Inde, est un bourbier de contradictions et de controverses." C'est ce dont prend conscience Shoba Narayan, de retour dans son pays après vingt ans passés aux Etats-Unis. A Bangalore, la journaliste fréquente la laitière du quartier et s'interroge [...]
I am going to the Paris Book Fair!
The Festival du Livre de Paris has a joyful homepage. India is the guest of honour this year and so there are several wonderful authors, who are participating in various events, receptions and panels-- including me. Here is a panel that I am part of. The reason for my invitation is that my book, The Milk Lady of Bangalore was translated to French as La Laitiere de Bangalore. In the next five days, to mark the days of the actual festival, I will be sending out short blog posts about French reviews of this book.After that I will go back [...]
Has fine wine reached a tipping point?
How can fine wine stay relevant? In this age of climate change, are wine drinkers going to be looking at other parameters when they buy wines– sustainability for instance. Unlike dark chocolate, which grew from its niche obscurity to its current keto-diet popularity, wine is taking the opposite route. Fine wine—the term is used so often and in so many situations that it has almost become meaningless—has now reached the tipping point in terms of affordability, access and most importantly, status.
What to eat if you go half-way vegan?
It is depressing. Here I remain, perched on the higher end of the weighing scale, basically hating myself for over-eating, over-boozing and falling off my exercise routine. How to detox now? How now to stop the steady upward march of my Body Mass Index? How to stem the not-so-steady ballooning out of various body parts? The answer, I say, is tambli. Tambli is a cross between a chutney, raita and a lassi. It is served in coastal Karnataka-- Mangalore and upwards, usually before the rasam course. Which brings us to the key question for this column: is there any other culture that is as obsessed with the yogurt-coconut combo as we South Indians are?