Sherbets: drinks of an Indian childhood for Mint Lounge
This coming Saturday is Mint Lounge's Summer Special issue. I wrote a column on cooling summer drinks, which, I discovered is already up on the site. So am posting it here. Columns Posted: Thu, Apr 5 2012. 8:12 PM IST [...]
Music and Art for Mint Lounge
Tuning in to change 5 min read . Updated: 30 Mar 2012, 09:17 PM IST The Good Life | Shoba Narayan Artist Sudarshan Shetty and I are sitting on the steps of [...]
Radio New Zealand
Radio New Zealand and I had fixed up a time for a live-show a few weeks ago. On the appointed day, I miscalculated the time difference. So here I am, in Commercial Street, Bangalore, showing around friends who have just [...]
Other mentions
Art Expo India: where art meets business In an insightful column published a few months ago, The Mint writer Shoba Narayan mentioned of various fabulous facets that make the process of creating and collecting such an exciting process. Here [...]
Adam Bly
I met Adam Bly in Bangalore, thanks to my friend, Sriram. We had a few meals together and I interviewed him at Inklude Labs' offices. Here is a video recording of the interview. We were laughing a lot because I [...]
Design inspired by India: Mint Lounge Luxury issue
I was at the Mint Luxury conference in Mumbai. The Lounge Luxury issue was timed for that. There are some terrific essays by Radha Chadha and Sunil Khilnani. I liked Radha's "More is More" theory of Indian luxury-- it is [...]
Sudarshan Shetty Profile for The National Abu Dhabi
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 [...]
Idealism and Love
My latest My Life column for The National's M magazine Shoba Narayan on idealising your spouse Shoba Narayan Mar 29, 2012 After 20 years of marriage, I am no longer the dewy-eyed newlywed who believes her husband can do no [...]
About Moynat for Financial Times weekend
I love niche products that nobody has heard of. Moynat fits the bill. It retails only in Paris for now, and very few people have heard of this brand. Below is a piece I wrote about Moynat for Financial Times [...]
Radio New Zealand
I don't know how they found me but I am now an overseas correspondent for a Radio show in New Zealand. Below is the date of live broadcasts. If anyone is in New Zealand, check them out. From: Nights Subject: [...]
About Ashwin Mahesh
Columnist Posted: Thu, Mar 15 2012. 7:12 PM IST Does Bangalore’s Good Man stand a chance? Being a good citizen is something that we urban elite think about and struggle with. How do you become a good citizen? What are [...]
Indian design objects
Columns Posted: Fri, Mar 9 2012. 9:42 PM IST Design begins in your kitchen and your closet The decorative traditions of India took pleasure in crafting objects for everyday use that were quite beautiful The Good Life | Shoba Narayan [...]