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Reinventing last year’s fashion: upcycling, recycling: for The National Abu Dhabi
Altered notions: recycling last year's fashions Shoba Narayan (Writer) Mar 22, 2010 next previous It is a problem that afflicts every fashion designer: what to do with last season's clothes that didn't sell? In India, unlike the US or Europe, [...]
MF Hussain: India shamed as its greatest painter is driven abroad: The National Abu Dhabi
India shamed as its greatest painter is driven abroad Shoba Narayan (Writer) Mar 10, 2010 India's treasured painter Maqbool Fida Hussain officially handed over his Indian passport and became a Qatari citizen yesterday. He is never returning home and Indians should [...]
For The National Abu Dhabi on the Kumbh Mela
The spectacle of Hindu pilgrims converging near the Ganga.
Secular India
A tolerant and secular India is a myth to make real Shoba Narayan (Writer) Mar 29, 2010 While the roots of Hindu-Muslim enmity in India run deep, every now and then - and dishearteningly, with increasing frequency - certain events [...]
Secular India
A tolerant and secular India is a myth to make real Shoba Narayan (Writer) Mar 29, 2010 While the roots of Hindu-Muslim enmity in India run deep, every now and then - and dishearteningly, with increasing frequency - certain events [...]
Microfinance
Microfinance has become a big deal for India's poorest Shoba Narayan (Writer) Aug 7, 2010 For all the controversy surrounding SKS Microfinance's initial public offering (IPO) last week, its shares were fully subscribed. SKS is India's largest and arguably most [...]
Cappadoccia
Cappadocia: wonders above and below Shoba Narayan (Writer) May 29, 2010 next previous When my father-in-law turned 70 a few years ago, he had two wishes: to visit Turkey and Angkor Wat. Angkor made sense for this gentle scholar of [...]
Money Buys Happiness
Money makes the world go round and can buy happiness Shoba Narayan (Writer) Aug 28, 2010 Experiences bring more happiness than objects. Last week, I did something I have never done before. I took out my credit card bill and [...]
Quintessentially and its use in India: The National Abu Dhabi
India's super-rich a quintessentially complicated bunch Shoba Narayan Sep 26, 2010 I have a request for Paul Drummond, the boyish co-founder of Quintessentially, the UK-based luxury concierge service: can he get me into elBulli before it closes forever? If [...]
Indian Pharma
A dose of Indian state support will keep drug firms healthy Shoba Narayan Oct 3, 2010 Indians are not pill poppers. Or so I thought until a report in the Lancet Infectious Disease Journal linked an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" to [...]
Indian Pharma
A dose of Indian state support will keep drug firms healthy Shoba Narayan Oct 3, 2010 Indians are not pill poppers. Or so I thought until a report in the Lancet Infectious Disease Journal linked an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" to [...]
Oberoi Hotels
White knight to old man's rescue when black-tie party's over Shoba Narayan (Writer) Sep 4, 2010 next previous Hotel insiders in India have been wondering about the fate of the Oberoi hotels group for some time now, given that its [...]