Book about Indian Railways
Was happy to write for this book. The other contributors [...]
For Silkroad Cathay Pacific on Dance
For Silk Road. May 2014 issue KA0514_p058-061_Bengalura dance
Gratitude
An attempt at being funny. I had the hardest thing [...]
A female chef’s secret recipe for success for Quartz
A female chef’s secret recipe for success I was thrilled [...]
Nagging
The best way to make advice stick? Nag incessantly Shoba [...]
Cricket Widow
Opinion The only option for a cricket widow is to [...]
Queen the movie, Lean In
I hope Queen the movie triumphs in the box [...]
About Indian Wine for Mint Lounge
Wine clubs are proliferating all over India. The time is ripe for local producers to capture and grow this interest. An informal club I belong to served some nice white wines recently: an aromatic white from Château de Fontenille and a 2008 Aussières Blanc Chardonnay from Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite). The members of this club travel frequently and bring back wines. They do give Indian wines a try but prefer to pay two-three times more for wines of guaranteed quality. They are the market.
Maternal Mortality Rates
Maternal mortality interests me because it seems preventable and is [...]
Reinventing Carnatic Music
How do you make classical music relevant to a global audience? Should you even try? Today’s audience for Carnatic music ranges from Cleveland in the US to Chennai, and these are the hard-core ones. How can you expand its reach? Is it by removing the bhakti-rasa or devotional tone that some believe to be its core? Is it by changing the concert format, as some are doing? Or is it by developing a smartphone app?