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Trying Henna in Jaipur: for Smithsonian Journeys:
This is an old story. But for some reason, it wasn't uploaded here. So here it is. This post is about the art of applying henna and how I learned how to do it in Jaipur.
WisdomCircle: Coping with Career Transitions
Career transitions happen by choice or compulsion: some that we seek and some that are forced upon us. The trick when you find yourself stumbling is to be prepared to pivot, to change. Most people know how to change in theory. But doing it is terrifyingly difficult.
Sommelier India: Tre Bicchieri and Italian wines
I am at the festival pavilion at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. It is a wet Thursday morning and wine lovers from all across the city are trooping for Tre Bicchieri, arguably the most important Italian wine event in the US.
How Cartier scented a San Francisco symphony: for Mint Lounge
The House of Cartier has created three scents that will perfume the San Francisco Symphony hall at three key points during the performance—but we are not certain how it will be achieved.
Hindustan Times Edit Page: Carnatic music
T.M. Krishna fancies himself as a revolutionary, but he is an inconsistent reactionary whose argument is “anti-whatever the norm is” rather than cogently thinking through the evolution of music.
Hindustan Times: The trouble with Indian cocktails
The problem with creating cocktails in India is that we have too many ingredients available to us. For an imaginative mixologist, this throws up a dizzying array of choices and not all of them good.
Hindustan Times: The good life as per Indic thought
Is there an Indic approach to leading a good life? Not Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics which is the western notion of a good life.
WisdomCircle: Making peace with yourself
How do you change yourself? Often, change comes with, or as a result of pain. You have a heart attack and you change your eating habits.
For Going.com on Kerala
A travel story about Kerala for a largely American audience
Money Control: Bar hopping in Bangalore
Here then is an incomplete guide to what beer and wine you can drink in Bengaluru.
India Currents: Journeys of Faith
About a Bharatanatyam dance performance based on my book, Food & Faith.
Wisdom Circle: How to love in your 50s
Forget love. The glue that makes a relationship stick is how you fight and forgive. Do you sulk when wounded? Do you go silent? Or do you shout and scream?