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2104, 2018

Role reversal: you become an adult when your parents becomes the child

April 21st, 2018|Relationships|

When do you become an adult? People have different answers for this. Some say that they become adults when they leave home for college, when they make decisions on their own. Others link it to their first kiss, or more prosaically, their first paycheck. One friend said that she became an adult when her parents died. My parents’ relationship is beyond the realm of words or date nights or flowers on anniversaries. Their bond is primal.

1604, 2018

Thank you, The Hindu Bangalore.

April 16th, 2018|Books, The Cows of Bangalore|

Thank you Harshini Vakkalanka for this lovely piece here The moo factor Harshini Vakkalanka APRIL 16, 2018 00:00 IST UPDATED: APRIL 16, 2018 04:32 IST SHARE ARTICL Four-legged wisdom The cow is a great metaphor to explain life, says Shoba S R Raghunathan Author Shoba Narayan found the cow was a prism through which to view and explain many things about India Book lovers would by now have begun to associate the words ‘cow’ and ‘Bangalore’ with Shoba Narayan, author of the riveting and humorous Cows of Bangalore: And how I came to own one (Simon & Schuster India, Rs. 350), which was [...]

904, 2018

Thank you for the review, Times of India.

April 9th, 2018|Books, The Cows of Bangalore|

Narayan’s narrative skills are supreme. From a reluctant believer in the virtues of udder milk compared with packet milk to consecrating her new flat with freshly laid cow dung to buying a cow as a spiritual and religious act, and then donating it, Narayan walks the whole hog with the cow—although not with the desi cow, but a Holstein-Friesian version.

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