The National Abu Dhabi
Comment Essays for The National Abu Dhabi
Survival of the Tastiest for Mint Lounge
Headline writing is a fascinating exercise. When I write a column, I try to come up with headlines. Mint's team always do better (naturally). What is the skill that one needs to be a good headline writer, I wonder. I [...]
Women on top: for The National Abu Dhabi
A woman's touch is exactly what is needed in today's politics Shoba Narayan Sep 6, 2011 As Moza Al Otaiba begins her Federal National Council campaign, one of many women moving into the UAE's public sphere, I have some good [...]
Nagging is Easier
Subtle persuasion? Sometimes nagging is just easier Shoba Narayan Aug 25, 2011 I am studying Russian-style arm-twisting with a group of Bangaloreans who want to clean up this city. How to get people to stop dumping their rubbish on the road? How to [...]
A harbinger of hope for Kolkata’s poor
This ran during the Ramzan-Eid season in The National, Abu Dhabi
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 [...]