The National Abu Dhabi
Comment Essays for The National Abu Dhabi
Talk on Indian Jewellery Traditions
Where I participated in a panel on jewellery traditions from some of its best known experts. Event website here.
Twenty ways to do offbeat luxury
Twenty ways to do offbeat luxury in 2010: for Mint Lounge 4 min read . Updated: 02 Jan 2010, 02:33 PM IST The Good Life | Shoba Narayan Twenty ways to do offbeat luxury in 2010 Happy New Year everyone! The [...]
Bangalore’s underrated restaurants
Bangalore’s most underrated restaurants 4 min read . Updated: 22 Jul 2010, 07:57 PM IST Shoba Narayan | The Good Life Bangalore’s most underrated restaurants Some weeks ago, I was at a food and wine tasting, put together by Food Lovers, a [...]
Why naturalists are happier people
Being surrounded by trees, rivers and animals can add years to your life; and life to your years Welcome to my office," says Arpita Dutta. As lines go, this one is not particularly original. Except that we are sitting in [...]
Do your parents embarrass you?
When your mamma rocks the floor Have you ever been embarrassed by your parents? I confess that I have. The time when I was 18, for instance, and my father came searching for me at Mardi Gras (IIT Madras’ [...]
Weaving a revolution
I did something recently that gave me more satisfaction than a vacation. At the Sampoorn Handicrafts fair held at Chitrakala Parishad in Bangalore—similar to Dilli Haat and Mumbai’s Kala Ghoda festival—I spotted a beautiful khadi salwar kameez swaying in the [...]
What to do if your apartment is taken over by bees
The solution is surprisingly simple: leave them alone 5 min read. Every year, my apartment building in Central Bangalore gets taken over by rock bees in the summer. They come when the weather gets hot and leave when there [...]
Look at art intently, and with patience
Profile of Professory B.N. Goswamy 5 min read . Prof. Brijendra Nath Goswamy is in Bangalore to deliver Tasveer Foundation’s inaugural lecture. I have been allowed to take him out for an hour. Where does one take a man who is [...]
French National Day 2020
Against COVID-19, liberté, égalité and fraternité ! The French National Day is commonly known as Bastille Day and is celebrated every year on 14th July, symbolically marking the end of monarchy in France as [...]
About tennis and Bjorn Borg
What makes a professional scorecard? 5 min read A professional scorecard can mean different things and often, different timelines. A fund manager is measured every day, in fractions—the number of basis points his fund is up or down when the [...]
Mathematics– beautiful?
About Sujatha Ramadorai and the delights of pure math 4 min read . I have become obsessed with mathematicians. I see them as rare creatures—all the more inspiring because they toil in a field that is completely above my comprehension. Actually, [...]
Do spouses compete or coexist?
Mr vs Mrs, or how to compete and co-exist 4 min read . Hillary Clinton was in town and brought to the fore a question that I have oft pondered: Do women compete with their husbands? The short answer is either [...]