Column: The Good Life: for Mint Lounge
Why balance wins over early retirement
Patrick Pichette is probably a nice guy but.... A retirement letter masquerading as a wise sermon should hardly make news, let alone cause effusive gushing. Pichette comes across as a nice man. He has a lyrical turn of phrase. That, along with the fact that he holds a top job in a revered Silicon Valley company, may be why his resignation letter has the drama it does. Man rockets to the top; then drops off the cliff. That’s the story.
The joy of a migratory bird going back home
Have been working on our upcoming music shows in Chennai all weekend. We are completely redoing the show, and including more Tamil songs. The Chennai audience is both discerning and has a specific taste. Like the fabled Hamsa birds that can separate milk from water and drink only the milk, the Chennai audience has forgotten more about music that I care to remember. So it is exciting for me. I feel the joy of a migratory bird that is going back home. The rosy starlings that are currently thronging Ulsoor Lake will go back to Tajikistan at about the same [...]
The Music Show goes to Chennai!!
We are performing back to back. April 11th evening at YG Mahedra's Bharat Kalachar. April 12th morning at Vani Mahal. This event requires RSVPs. So please see attachment for details
For The National, Abu Dhabi on Indian safaris
So every writer aspires to be a photographer or at least I do. Here are the photos I took at Kanha and Pench. You have to be patient and refresh the page many times. On a tiger trail in India Shoba Narayan March 12, 2015 Updated: March 12, 2015 02:29 PM I'm sitting on the deck outside my tent, which perches high above the Banjaar River in central India. Across the river lies Kanha National Park, which at 1,945 square kilometres is one of India’s largest. White egrets pick their way across the bank searching for fish. A male langur cries [...]
For India Today Travel Plus on Taj Safaris
One thing that wildlife teaches you is humility. Money cannot buy everything and certainly not a tiger sighting
How women speak: Which Verbal Personality type are you? for Mint Lounge
Society lays the onus on women. Lean In, says Sheryl Sandberg. Break the glass ceiling. Speak up. Dance like a man. That is one way. If you are the boss, sure, you can tell your quiet colleagues to speak up. Or you can simply hire more women. As has been reported in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Inc. and The Atlantic, teams with more women outperformed teams with more men on a consistent basis. “The secret to smart groups: it’s women,” as a headline in The Atlantic said.
While cricket happens down under I talk to Radio New Zealand about everything but.
Bryan Crump and I chat about the Delhi elections and surya namaskar here. Sadly, we ran out of time and didn't get to Perusal Murugan-- who I really wanted to talk about. http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/remote-player?id=20166885
Are you a spouse whisperer?
Are you a spouse whisperer? 5 min read . Updated: 14 Feb 2015, 12:56 AM IST Shoba Narayan You need to be one if he or she has stopped listening to you, says Shoba Narayan What you need this Valentine’s Day is not flowers or candles, but a spouse whisperer. What, you ask, is a spouse whisperer? Remember The Horse Whisperer, the movie in which Robert Redford made a horse do things it didn’t want to do? Spouse whisperers do the same thing to spouses. There comes a time in every relationship [...]
Monsoon Diary on social media
"HOW had I been cooking/eating/reading this long and not devoured Monsoon Diary, by Shoba Narayan? It seems unthinkable now that I have read it cover to cover in about a day (the 20 inches of snow outside helped me a little).
For Silverkris on Skydiving US
Skydiving and why you should consider jumping off a plane.