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Wealth is important, but it doesn’t build a child’s character
Wealth is important, but it doesn't build a child's character Shoba Narayan Mar 24, 2013 Save this article The number of "super rich" people in the UAE will increase by 53 per cent over the next decade, The National reported [...]
Champaca and the global perfume market: Mint Lounge
I'm crazy about perfume. In one of my favorite books of all time- Gerald Durrell's My family and other animals, the mother goes around looking for suitable burial sites for her when she dies. I know it sounds morbid, but [...]
Male Feminist
Feminism is important to me, but my stance as a feminist is quite confusing, even to me. I was raised to compromise and many times, I do. What is the difference between compromising and copping out? I am still figuring [...]
The Art of Throwing
Do scientists do research on throwing and running? I didn't know this before I interviewed this man. It was heartening to hear his views on scientific research in India and the funding that is available. My friend, Srikantan, who is [...]
Healing music
Today, a Hindustani musician came home and sang for us from 5 to 7. He is a student of the late great Bhimsen Joshi, originally from Pune and belongs to the Kirana Garana. His first rendition was in Raag Basant [...]
Hollywood’s power couples offer twice the envy
Hollywood's power couples offer twice the envy Shoba Narayan Feb 28, 2013 Save this article Now that the Oscars are over, the usual lists of Hollywood (and other) power couples are making the rounds. There is something about the notion [...]
Review of book
Thank you Kari O' Driscoll for the kind review here Author: Shoba Narayan ISBN: 978-0988415799 Shoba Narayan’s memoir is as much the story of an immigrant to a foreign country as it is the story of how becoming a mother [...]
Illness
Jackie Colaco sent me this rather useful reply to the below article. Living will is something that I have only recently gotten to know. As for body donation, someone dear to me wants to donate all her organs, but it [...]
M.S. Subbulakshmi
Listening to M.S.'s Bhaja Govindam as you read this will improve the sensory experience. That-- or Bhavayami Gopala Baalam. Also, Mint has chosen a photo from their files, but below are my favorite MS photos. Also, there was a great [...]
Wobble Board
I love my Thera-band. I wobble and work. And I admire how Aishwarya Rai has charted her life. When the mind begins to wobble, adjust your balance Shoba Narayan Feb 18, 2013 Bollywood's Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the Indian news media [...]
Wine and Indian food: for Mint Lounge
I have been house-bound these days and have spent a lot of time boning up on an old pursuit: wine. Reading, talking, listening and sampling. The amount of material available on the Web is phenomenal; and the amount of wine [...]
How Bangalore has created Power Partnerships
This weeks Mint Lounge is a quirky take on Power Couples. It includes parent-child partnerships along with the usual spouses one. When my editors told me to write on "Power Couples," I wrote a sneering, snarky one that was (again) at attempt at humor. Thankfully, this meeting happened and I attended. So I asked if I could refile and substitute that one for this. Here is the piece on Mint's website and below. I hope BPAC flourishes.