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This is my first post in my redesigned website. It is really cool to see what is possible in web design these days and [...]
The ‘India Option’
The future back home Instead of Looking Abroad, Today's Indian Management Graduates See a Future at Home Published: July 24, 2008 in India Knowledge@Wharton In [...]
Role of Women in Indian Politics?
India should work towards empowering women economically — through microfinance programs — and also encourage greater participation of women leaders in panchayats, or village councils, writes author Shoba Narayan in this opinion piece.
Affordable Housing
Affordable housing is an idea whose time has come, writes Bangalore-based writer Shoba Narayan in this opinion piece.
Electric Cars in India: Why So Few?
With the rise of environmentalism and the high cost of gasoline, it would seem that the electric car would take off. Not so fast, says Bangalore-based writer Shoba Narayan in this opinion piece.
Shoba Narayan prepares a meal
SPICING THINGS UP Shoba Narayan prepares a meal. 'Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes' Shoba Narayan's Book Celebrates Family and Food April 26, 200312:00 AM [...]
Publisher’s Weekly review of Monsoon Diary
Food is intimacy and comfort, and Narayan’s book neatly transitions between descriptions of her family’s life and the meals that punctuated it.
Kirkus Reviews Monsoon Diary
In a series of color-drenched chapters accompanied by recipes, food and travel writer Narayan recalls growing up in India and studying in the US. Place and taste take center stage, often at the expense of story, in a narrative focused as much on particular foods as on milestones in the author's life.
Passage to India: Cooking With Shoba Narayan
‘In a proper Indian meal you have to balance six tastes," explains food writer Shoba Narayan, a native of Madras. "Salt, sweetness, tartness, bitterness, sour, astringent. So every family strives to have these six tastes in every meal." She flashes a mischievous grin."Of course, no one ever really does. Or at least not in our family. Balance is a goal."
