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New column: Bangalore Talkies
New column for Hindustan Times: Bangalore Talkies When R. Sukumar calls and asks me to write a column, I don't say No. This is the result. For Hindustan Times's new Bangalore edition e-paper (for now). Here it is. And what a pleasure to get back to writing for you, Sukumar. What makes Bangalore Special What makes Bangalore special? Amongst those who live in-- and love their cities-- and the two don’t necessarily go together-- there is often a somewhat trite parlour-game that is played, often after copious amounts of alcohol. The game relates to identity, of a [...]
Feature in the New Indian Express about Food & Faith
Seeking piety in prasadams By Anushree Madhavan Express News Service Through her latest release, Food & Faith, author Shoba Narayan journeys across 15 temples of India to reflect on how food can be a path to find your faith Published: 21st January 2021 06:43 AM | Last Updated: 21st January 2021 06:43 AM CHENNAI: Rasam saadam has been a staple, and my favourite, from my early childhood years. But if I had to pick one rasam saadam that left me wanting for more, it would be the one I had at the Shringeri Sharadamba [...]
Conversation between two foodies for The Hindu Weekend
If you ask me where home is, I will say Chennai. It is the city in which I spent the first and formative years of my life and it still is what I would call hime. I grew up reading The Hindu. The late great NMN, the Hindu's music critic lived down the road from us in Indiranagar. Every evening, I would watch him walk down our road, while we played gully cricket. Tall and lanky with his short wife, "Mami" as we called her following him, he was off to a concert. Rosella Stephen has made The Hindu [...]
About Pongal for The Guardian UK
Pongal is comfort food for south India’s harvest season. Is is both a harvest festival, which starts today, and the rice and dal breakfast dish eaten to mark its arrivalShoba Narayan
Food & Faith: Conversation with Amit Varma
Amit Varma's podcast is hugely popular all over India and indeed the world. So I was delighted to be in conversation with him. Amit's questions reflect his deep curiosity about a variety of subjects. His insightful prodding drew me out in a way that is rare in Indian media. Podcast page is here. Don't miss the extensive list of things we talked about in the show notes section.
Food & Faith featured in Morung Express– Northeast India
Writing about sacred food helped me figure out my faith: Shoba Narayan FEATURED NEWS 28th November 2020 By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, November 28 (IANS): Award-winning author and columnist Shoba Narayan is a graduate from the Columbia Journalism School with a Pulitzer Travelling Fellowship and writes on food, travel, fashion, and art and culture for a slew of International and Indian publications like the Conde Nast Traveller, NYT and Brunch. All her four books are firmly rooted in Indian culture, as is her latest offering, "Food & Faith - A Pilgrim's Journey Through India", (HarperCollins) that she says actually [...]
Food & Faith discussion at the Bangalore Literature Festival
Please click below on the right for my conversation with Mani Rao at the Bangalore Literature Festival held at the BIC premises. Also below is a podcast based on the conversation. 81. Food and Faith (with Shoba Narayan and Mani Rao) Food, belief and identities SUBSCRIBE APPLE PODCASTS GOOGLE PODCASTS SPOTIFY STITCHER CASTBOX OVERCAST RSS
Food & Faith: Vogue Magazine feature
CULTURE & LIVING This new culinary book builds a connection between food and religions in India BY SONAL VED 27 DECEMBER 2020 Food and Faith by Shoba Narayan deep dives into this subject In India, you can’t separate food from faith. If the 29 diverse varieties of Indian cuisines, each coming from one state in the country, are not enough, we also have recipes that the temples and shrines in India dole out. Food and Faith, a new food book by writer Shoba Narayan spotlights many of them. We chat with the author to [...]
Food & Faith: Book Review in Medium.
Book By Its Cover- Food and Faith Munmun Mohanty 13 hours ago·3 min read Having been an ardent reader of her columns, I knew exactly I had to expect from this book. Halfway through the book, I knew my expectations were misplaced.In a way the book and the anecdotes EXCEEDED MY EXPECTATIONS. The author describes her rendezvous with 15 iconic places of worship and tries to understand the nexus between faith and life. She has written this with an open mind. Although seemingly she does not subscribe to certain ideas but she keeps her [...]
Conversation with Litt Live
The next Literature Live! Brightness of Books is a mouth-watering one. The book by Shoba Narayan is called Food & Faith: A Pilgrim's Journey Through India, and its central theme is prasad (or prasadam). As children, we looked forward to pujas for the food that followed; in that respect at least, some of us have not grown up! So, to start with, I shall feast on the book. The writing of Food & Faith took Shoba all over India. She will talk about her experiences and the underlying philosophy behind religious offerings with Deepa Krishnan, the well known [...]