Book – Shoba Narayan

Buy my book

By: Shoba Narayan August 7, 2015

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Just got my ten author copies of Katha yesterday. They are beautifully packaged. Small enough to fit in a purse. It releases August 28th but you can pre order at the below sites. Infibeam has done the best job of marketing it. Flipkart Amazon Infibeam

New book, not by me: The Udipi Kitchen

By: Shoba Narayan March 21, 2015March 21, 2015

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Geetha Rao is someone I got to know through Stanley Pinto’s The Bangalore Black Tie. She always wears gorgeous saris and is now President of the Karnataka Crafts Council. I have written about her sari collection for Mint– search for Kodali Karuppur sari and Geetha Rao. Now, Geetha has a new book out, co-written with…

Focus

By: Shoba Narayan July 14, 2014September 20, 2017

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Today was the worst day. I walked around searching for my glasses with them on my head. That does it. I need to start a “meditation project.” Everyday. Ten minutes. At least. My inability to meditate properly is really stressing me out Shoba Narayan July 14, 2014 Updated: July 14, 2014 05:26 PM In his…

Yoga and Willpower

By: Shoba Narayan June 21, 2014September 20, 2017

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I restarted yoga lessons. My teacher is very good, but very very busy!!! Hope his timings and mine can work out long term. Inspired by my lessons….. Can yoga improve your willpower? In an ideal world, stilettos would have massager-inserts in them; French fries would remove the toxins from your body and make your waistline…

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 wouldn’t be able to find the studies that countered Prof Grant’s thesis. But I found that I just couldn’t let it go. Some of my closest friends graduated from the…

Deepavali feasting (or fasting)

By: Shoba Narayan November 11, 2012September 27, 2017

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Pulchritudinous? Seriously? Is that a compliment-worthy word? Read on In The National Before a feast goes to your hips, reach for the thesaurus Shoba Narayan Nov 12, 2012 Nowadays, over lunch and dinner, I make my husband repeat a litany of compliments. “You look beautiful, my darling,” he tells me as I fork in some…

New Book: Return to India

By: Shoba Narayan April 16, 2012April 16, 2012

Return to IndiaBook, indian subcontinent, Rain Tree, Return to India, Rupa Publications16 Comments

I am working on Book Number 2, which will hopefully be out later this summer. It is a memoir called, “Return to India.” It will be published by Rain Tree (how I love that name), which Rupa calls “its new premium hardcover imprint” here You can view my title in the Raintree catalogue here The…