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Are Foundations neccessary?
Mastering the art of giving The hundi model - or writing significant cheques in an ad hoc and anonymous fashion - is the worst [...]
Mom and Dad on Facebook
For The National Surrounded by teenagers as my parents take to Facebook Shoba Narayan Sep 5, 2012 A week ago, my 80-year old father joined Facebook. [...]
Epic marriage proposal
It's never too late for an insincere declaration of love Shoba Narayan Aug 26, 2012 Two weeks ago, David Pogue, the technology columnist for The [...]
Meeting Mr. Murthy
Some things you remember because they are dramatic. Some things you remember because of circumstance. I remember Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy phoning me up to [...]
Memories and cupcakes for Mint Lounge
Customized cupcakes and south Indian tiffins The old and the new coexist in Chennai today in a way that warms the cockles of its erstwhile [...]
Marketing a book
Rupa told me today that my book has reached the Bangalore office and was being shipped to bookstores. We are planning a launch and I [...]
Transgenders
Enjoyed writing this piece. Thanks to the Mad Men of Chennai who helped me with this: Venkat, Sunil, Ranvir. Mucho Gracias! A space for gender-bending [...]
On Wisdom
This one is for you, Ma. And thanks, Sujata, for sending out the study. Intelligence versus wisdom, and humility comes out on top Shoba Narayan [...]
Cow Chronicles Final Post
Cow chronicles: a civil ceremony Mercenary dairy farmers have an inherent aversion to ill-treating these animals because they have been raised to think of [...]
