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Cultural Immersion
I am doing a class/presentation/module on cultural immersion for a visiting Executive MBA class from the U.S. Basically, I am trying to un-package India for them and it is a fascinating exercise. What do you focus on? Values, food, music, [...]
New Book: Return to India
I am working on Book Number 2, which will hopefully be out later this summer. It is a memoir called, "Return to India." It will be published by Rain Tree (how I love that name), which Rupa calls "its new [...]
Research and Reality
Posted: Fri, Apr 13 2012. 7:51 PM IST Where research ends and reality begins Detachment is an interesting idea. How do you stop yourself from forming bonds of attachment with the people you report on for years? Can you? The [...]
Khadi: The Freedom Fabric makes a comeback: for The National Abu Dhabi
Khadi 'Freedom fabric' makes a comeback in India At the recent high-profile wedding of the Bollywood stars Genelia D'Souza and Ritish Deshmukh, two outfits that stood out were not made of high-end fabric or Swarovski crystal, but khadi, the Indian [...]
Sherbets: drinks of an Indian childhood for Mint Lounge
This coming Saturday is Mint Lounge's Summer Special issue. I wrote a column on cooling summer drinks, which, I discovered is already up on the site. So am posting it here. Columns Posted: Thu, Apr 5 2012. 8:12 PM IST [...]
Music and Art for Mint Lounge
Tuning in to change 5 min read . Updated: 30 Mar 2012, 09:17 PM IST The Good Life | Shoba Narayan Artist Sudarshan Shetty and I are sitting on the steps of [...]
Radio New Zealand
Radio New Zealand and I had fixed up a time for a live-show a few weeks ago. On the appointed day, I miscalculated the time difference. So here I am, in Commercial Street, Bangalore, showing around friends who have just [...]
Other mentions
Art Expo India: where art meets business In an insightful column published a few months ago, The Mint writer Shoba Narayan mentioned of various fabulous facets that make the process of creating and collecting such an exciting process. Here [...]
Adam Bly
I met Adam Bly in Bangalore, thanks to my friend, Sriram. We had a few meals together and I interviewed him at Inklude Labs' offices. Here is a video recording of the interview. We were laughing a lot because I [...]
Design inspired by India: Mint Lounge Luxury issue
I was at the Mint Luxury conference in Mumbai. The Lounge Luxury issue was timed for that. There are some terrific essays by Radha Chadha and Sunil Khilnani. I liked Radha's "More is More" theory of Indian luxury-- it is [...]
Sudarshan Shetty Profile for The National Abu Dhabi
About Sudarshan Shetty for The National. Mumbai-based artist Sudarshan Shetty demonstrates his sense of play Shoba Narayan Mar 27, 2012 Standing outside the gleaming tower of the Maker Maxity building in suburban Mumbai is a fire-engine-red double-decker bus of the [...]
Idealism and Love
My latest My Life column for The National's M magazine Shoba Narayan on idealising your spouse Shoba Narayan Mar 29, 2012 After 20 years of marriage, I am no longer the dewy-eyed newlywed who believes her husband can do no [...]