I am reviewing hotels for The Telegraph UK. My first review here. Travel Destinations Hotels View gallery Meghauli Serai Meghauli, Nepal View on a map 8 out of10Telegraph expert rating For wildlife lovers who want creature comforts alongside rhino, tiger and sloth bear sightings, Meghauli Serai, bordering Chitwan National Park, Nepal, provides pitch-perfect service— marrying hospitality […]
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Kashi, Ganga and the politics of religion
I enjoyed writing this four part series for Mint on Sunday. Kashi is a dream-like place. Seems to belong to another time, and yet to all time. The photos are mine too🙂 OF DEAD COWS AND THE GANGA: THE PARADOX OF RELIGION Photo: Shoba Narayan In her quest to embrace faith, the ultimate feel-good […]
Mehndi/Henna for Journeys– a magazine from the Smithsonian
Wrote this piece for Journeys, a new travel quarterly by Smithsonian. You can find it here. Click on the link below for my piece. Live Like a Local
Can wine be described well?
Lots of nice wine tastings coming up in Bangalore. One with Food Lover’s Magazine. How best can you describe a wine? KRSMA Estates has invited me to a tasting of their wines next week, and frankly, I am a little nonplussed. Not because I dislike their wines, which I don’t, but because there is this […]
Katha Review
Thank you Vijaya Pushkarna, for the generous review. I am supposed to have a Twitter conversation with you or The Week tomorrow, August 5th from 4 to 5. Have never done this before. Nervous. KATHA: TELL A STORY, SELL A DREAM Tales pitch By Vijaya Pushkarna | August 09, 2015 A STORY for every occasion. Anyone […]
Memories are made of buttermilk
It is hot now in Bangalore, which, I guess, is what prompted this piece. Memories are made of buttermilk My first memory of buttermilk is warmth and darkness. I must have been five or six years old. Still confused by the mists of sleep, I walked into my grandmother’s kitchen, drawn by a comforting […]
Birding: seeing versus hearing
This season is hard for birding. The trees are lush with leaves. Small birds are chirping and I can’t see them. Drives me nuts. How to identify birds just by seeing them Ayurveda divides us into three phenotypes: vata, pitta and kapha. Vatas have acute hearing and enjoy the sense of touch—if my memory serves […]
Trees and birds
In London, it was the sweet song of the thrush. In India, it is the kooo of the Asian koel that I am listening to right now. Birdwatching is also about the trees The rhythms of nature are evident in the patterns of the bird movement Shoba Narayan In which the author connects birds and […]
How to bird-watch. How to watch birds
I am writing about nature. About what is turning out to be a favorite subject. How to birdwatch Shoba Narayan starts a four-part series on birdwatching Shoba Narayan In which the author makes a case for bird watching as a hobby and tells you how to start: It begins with a pair of binoculars; and […]
The Sanskrit Podcast
I met Vrinda Acharya through my sister-in-law in Florida. She teaches my sis-in-law carnatic music via skype. Vrinda is a young, dynamic musician, performer, researcher and has a Master’s degree in Sanskrit. Her husband is a mridangam artist. She lives in Malleshwaram and is steeped in music and sanskrit. I interviewed her on the Sanskrit […]
