New column: Bangalore Talkies
New column for Hindustan Times: Bangalore Talkies When R. Sukumar calls and asks me to write a column, I don't say No. This is the result. For Hindustan Times's new Bangalore edition e-paper (for now). Here it is. And [...]
Feature in the New Indian Express about Food & Faith
Seeking piety in prasadams By Anushree Madhavan Express News Service Through her latest release, Food & Faith, author Shoba Narayan journeys across 15 temples of India to reflect on how food can be a path to find your faith [...]
Conversation between two foodies for The Hindu Weekend
If you ask me where home is, I will say Chennai. It is the city in which I spent the first and formative years of my life and it still is what I would call hime. I grew up [...]
About Pongal for The Guardian UK
Pongal is comfort food for south India’s harvest season. Is is both a harvest festival, which starts today, and the rice and dal breakfast dish eaten to mark its arrivalShoba Narayan
Food & Faith: Conversation with Amit Varma
Amit Varma's podcast is hugely popular all over India and indeed the world. So I was delighted to be in conversation with him. Amit's questions reflect his deep curiosity about a variety of subjects. His insightful prodding drew me [...]
Food & Faith featured in Morung Express– Northeast India
Writing about sacred food helped me figure out my faith: Shoba Narayan FEATURED NEWS 28th November 2020 By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, November 28 (IANS): Award-winning author and columnist Shoba Narayan is a graduate from the Columbia Journalism School [...]
Food & Faith discussion at the Bangalore Literature Festival
Please click below on the right for my conversation with Mani Rao at the Bangalore Literature Festival held at the BIC premises. Also below is a podcast based on the conversation. [...]
Food & Faith: Vogue Magazine feature
CULTURE & LIVING This new culinary book builds a connection between food and religions in India BY SONAL VED 27 DECEMBER 2020 Food and Faith by Shoba Narayan deep dives into this subject In [...]
Food & Faith: Book Review in Medium.
Book By Its Cover- Food and Faith Munmun Mohanty 13 hours ago·3 min read Having been an ardent reader of her columns, I knew exactly I had to expect from this book. Halfway through [...]
Conversation with Litt Live
The next Literature Live! Brightness of Books is a mouth-watering one. The book by Shoba Narayan is called Food & Faith: A Pilgrim's Journey Through India, and its central theme is prasad (or prasadam). As children, we looked [...]
Food & Faith featured in HT Smartcast Podcast
The contradictory impulse. Where you write pretty much in solitude. And then offer it to the world through talks and conversations. I lost an MFA degree because I couldn't reconcile this contradiction but that is a tale for another [...]
Food & Faith: Feature in The Hindu Metroplus
Feature about Food & Faith The Hindu Metroplus Food is an inherent part of India’s places of worship. In her new book, Shoba Narayan delves into the making of prasadams, langars and more [...]