Column: The Good Life: for Mint Lounge
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Living our lives on social media may be great for our personal brand, but it also means giving up a bit of our soul
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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 [...]
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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.
The Pleasures of Palakkad: buying a lottery ticket
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Shoba Narayan’s friendship with Sarala, the milk woman, leads to the writing of a tale replete with wisecracks, wry observations and warm memories
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REVIEWS The Cows of Bangalore: And How I Came to Own One review: Bovine happiness Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta MARCH 31, 2018 19:45 IST UPDATED: MARCH 31, 2018 17:54 IST The Cows of Bangalore: And How I Came to Own One Shoba Narayan /Simon & Schuster ₹350 Discovering a bit of old Bangalore in the new When we were growing up in a spacious green layout in South Bangalore, my mother used to buy fresh milk from a woman who brought two cows to the street corner every morning. Those were the days when everything you needed was at the street corner: the [...]