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I welcome your feedback. What can I do to improve the class? Please post your thoughts below if you wish. Thanks very much and it was wonderful getting to know you all. Please stay in touch. Shoba
Parenting dilemmas
This piece is heartfelt. The problem is that I don't see any solution to this. Sometimes, parenting seems like a crapshoot-- you make certain decisions and hope they work out. My elder daughter still hasn't asked for a dog! Did [...]
Food- North Indian versus South Indian for Silkroad, Dragonair/Cathay Pacific’s inflight magazine
This appeared in Silkroad magazine's Feb 2012 issue North Versus South Indian Food
About Vishnu for the Yoga Journal
About Vishnu in the Yoga Journal Super Man Vishnu lives in luxury, but this Hindu god will abandon his opulent ways to take human form and save the world from evil. By Shoba Narayan In Indian films known as "god [...]
Parvati Power: for Yoga Journal
Yoga Journal Parvati Power This Hindu goddess, consort of Shiva, proves that dignity and smarts prevail. By Shoba Narayan Parvati is one face of the divine female energy, often called Devi (the shining one) or Shakti (power), that many Indians [...]
About female goddesses for the Yoga Journal
Thanks, Nora Isaacs, for sending me these links in the Yoga Journal. Wrote these pieces a long time ago. Didn't know they existed. Quite Contrary Kali is both a fierce warrior and a compassionate mother goddess, reflecting the range of [...]
Bespoke Flowers: Mint Lounge
Columns Posted: Thu, Feb 9 2012. 7:54 PM IST Earth laughs in flowers All over the world, people are moving towards handmade, handcrafted local objects—made to measure and customized right in front of your eyes The Good Life | Shoba [...]
About Starbucks
Starbucks has to wake up and smell the coffee in India Shoba Narayan Café Coffee Day, an Indian coffee chain, will offer serious competition to Starbucks, which aims to open 50 outlets by the end of the year. Aijaz Rahi [...]
About Jitish Kallat and Reena Saini Kallat for Mint Lounge
Columns Posted: Thu, Feb 2 2012. 7:45 PM IST Walking the art talk with the Kallats Jitish and Reena are charming and polite—to me and to each other. They don’t interrupt and listen intently to each other as they describe [...]
About the comfort of rice: for The National Abu Dhabi
My Life: Shoba Narayan on rice Shoba Narayan Feb 1, 2012 People want different things on a cold winter night: a piping hot bowl of soup or the seductive richness of, say, foie gras. I crave steaming hot rice. [...]
Final Presentations
I request all of you who are doing your presentations next Monday and Tuesday to keep it under 10 minutes. Because there are so many of us, I have no choice but to ensure that people keep within their time limit, [...]
Role Playing
I enjoyed our session today! Thanks to all who had the courage to come up today. I realize that the later candidates will have the advantage of our feedback and I will factor that in while grading you. In other [...]