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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 [...]
Food & Faith excerpted in Condenast Traveller
‘Hinduism, like many great religions, is about feasting and fasting, praying and eating prasadam’ Shoba Narayan's new book delves into the many ways food and belief are intertwined with our identities Shoba Narayan PUBLISHED: NOV 21, [...]
Food and Faith flies out to the world
Shoba Narayan approaches faith through perhaps its most primal and nourishing aspect: food. She partakes of sacred food in shrines across India and writes about the intimate yet powerful connection between food and faith.
Are wine terms pretentious?
Are wine terms pretentious? My column for Sommelier India Palate is a term that sounds pompous but really isn’t. In fact, it is the simplest way by which [...]
Karma yoga and the need to negotiate
Karma yoga and the need to negotiate 5 min read . Updated: 16 Jul 2009, 09:20 PM IST The Good Life | Shoba Narayan Karma yoga and the need to negotiate What’s the best negotiating strategy you can use in a [...]