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706, 2012

Royal Enfield for The National Abu Dhabi

June 7th, 2012|Business Column, Luxury, The National|

Royal Enfield reinventing the wheels Shoba Narayan Jun 7, 2012 In what could have been a risky manoeuvre, the 119-year old brand of Royal Enfield redesigned its motorbikes. Beloved in India, the new motorbikes are meant to be sleeker [...]

1104, 2012

Khadi: The Freedom Fabric makes a comeback: for The National Abu Dhabi

April 11th, 2012|Handmade, The National|

Khadi 'Freedom fabric' makes a comeback in India At the recent high-profile wedding of the Bollywood stars Genelia D'Souza and Ritish Deshmukh, two outfits that stood out were not made of high-end fabric or Swarovski crystal, but khadi, the Indian [...]

2803, 2012

Sudarshan Shetty Profile for The National Abu Dhabi

March 28th, 2012|Arts, Profiles, The National|

About Sudarshan Shetty for The National. Mumbai-based artist Sudarshan Shetty demonstrates his sense of play Shoba Narayan Mar 27, 2012  Standing outside the gleaming tower of the Maker Maxity building in suburban Mumbai is a fire-engine-red double-decker bus of the [...]

2902, 2012

Hindu Festival of Sacred Music for The National Abu Dhabi

February 29th, 2012|Arts, The National|

Hindu Festival of Sacred Music starts this weekend Shoba Narayan Feb 29, 2012 South Indian or Carnatic music has a hoary history that dates back to the Vedas, ancient Sanskrit works that form the foundation of the Hindu religion. [...]

502, 2012

About Starbucks

February 5th, 2012|Business Column, The National|

Starbucks has to wake up and smell the coffee in India Shoba Narayan Café Coffee Day, an Indian coffee chain, will offer serious competition to Starbucks, which aims to open 50 outlets by the end of the year. Aijaz Rahi [...]

102, 2012

About the comfort of rice: for The National Abu Dhabi

February 1st, 2012|Food, My Life column, The National|

My Life: Shoba Narayan on rice Shoba Narayan Feb 1, 2012   People want different things on a cold winter night: a piping hot bowl of soup or the seductive richness of, say, foie gras. I crave steaming hot rice. [...]

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