For Mint Lounge India on Delhi nightlife
A Phantom and Other Nocturnal Animals 5 min read . Updated: 25 Aug 2011, 10:01 PM IST The Good Life | Shoba Narayan There is one thing that we Bangaloreans mourn: the 11.30pm curfew by which the [...]
Three in Biotech: for Silkroad, Dragonair, Cathay Pacific
Three in Biotech We interviewed her at Biocon and photographer Mallik Katakol came with an "umbrella" to focus the light on her to shoot her for this piece and the other Work/Life that I did on her.
For Cathay Pacific Magazine on Architecture
Why Bangaloreans care so much about old buildings and neighbourhoods.
When Housewives March for Mint
For a while now, I have been focusing on what writers call the "telling detail," where you observe something but pick out the detail that is new and unusual. In this piece, it was the housewife telling her Maharaj to [...]
Rosemary, Geeta and the future of banking
Rosemary, Geeta and the future of banking
Big City Brews
Big City Brews PDF here It is Saturday night and the Biere Club in Bangalore’s tony Lavelle Road is humming. Young IT professionals down pints of handcrafted ale, lager, wheat and stout beers, all made [...]
Family Life for The National
A column I write for M magazine, the weekend supplement of The National, Abu Dhabi. My life: Riding the waves of family life Shoba Narayan Jul 20, 2011 When you live in a foreign land as an immigrant or an [...]
About ice-cream for The National
I wrote this piece over six months ago when Bangalore was hot, hot, hot. They publish it now Icecream for The National here and pasted below Amid a rainbow of flavours, I am still frozen in the past Shoba Narayan [...]
Delhi Airport
Delhi airport's new terminal has nice bathroom entrances. I always wonder how to make iconic signs both accessible and yet creative. Here in the airport, they have screen printed large size images of Indian women in traditional garb at the [...]
Father’s Day column for The National
A piece I wrote for The National. Happy Fathers Day! Father’s Day Is being a father to a son different from being a father to a daughter? Shouldn’t be, right? After all, one of the central premises of parenting is [...]
Pho-bidden Fruit: for this website
My French neighbour has introduced me to some of the coolest places in Bangalore. Is there something wrong with this picture, or is it just how it is? Expats come to Bangalore and discover the city in a way that [...]
Confessions of a cross-carrying immigrant
Very old piece. Suddenly resurfaced here and on Rediff below. Confessions of a Cross-Carrying Immigrant Shoba Narayan January 4, 2000 I am an immigrant. I straddle cultures, juggle identities, and carry labels. The INS calls me Resident-Alien, the IRS calls [...]