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Arts funding: we don’t value our arts enough: for Mint Lounge
Like most journalists, I get lots of requests for meetings from people who have ideas to parlay, products to push, locations to publicize, and so [...]
Tagore and Return to India
A Tagore quote prompted this piece. The quote is included in the piece published in The National here and pasted below. The National Conversation After [...]
Gita Govindam
Amazing love-poem by Jayadeva. One of the finest Sanskrit works. I am studying this. [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/104687562" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]
Memory Improvement
Memory improvement is an obsession of mine. Here is my latest exercise/attempt to improve it. The National Conversation When I turned to the internet to [...]
Goyard, Rimowa and Tumi
I finally got it right: connecting the global with the local. One of the few pieces I am happy with even after publication. Usually I [...]
Goyard, Rimowa and Tumi: defined by your trunk: for Mint Lounge
I finally got it right: connecting the global with the local. One of the few pieces I am happy with even after publication. Usually I [...]
Booksoarus
Thank you, Lavanya Shanbogue, for the plug. Interview here.
Adam Grant
I read Adam Grant's essay in the New York Times last week. I had this knee-jerk reaction that was largely negative. I knew that I [...]
Pappadams: what are they and how to eat them: for Mint Lounge
I loved this week's issue of Mint Lounge. Sumant Jaikrishnan is an authentic Indian stylister (the male version of stylista). I loved the cover. Read [...]
