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Shoba Narayan

Shoba Narayan is Bangalore-based award-winning author. She is also a freelance contributor who writes about art, food, fashion and travel for a number of publications.

Articles by Shoba Narayan

Eating butter chicken at 32,000 feet

Travel, in case of some parents, is a way of recapturing their younger selves
Updated on Aug 4, 2018 17:06 IST

Sharing secret lives and riotous deaths

Is the point of sharing to crow about your accomplishments or expand your human connections?
Updated on Jul 21, 2018 16:08 IST

Save your marriage, plant a tree

Using a cellphone in bed is a common point of discord among couples
Updated on Jul 7, 2018 17:02 IST

Are you a texter or a talker?

The youth of today will go to extraordinary lengths not to have a conversation
Updated on Jun 29, 2018 06:42 IST

Realities of virtual thefts

We inhabit cyber space with ever-changing norms and rules. How do we keep up?
Updated on Jun 9, 2018 14:20 IST

To go or not to go: That is the question

In the Abilene Paradox, a group does something that nobody wants to do because each person thinks that everyone else wants to do it!
Updated on May 12, 2018 20:29 IST

Of Snapchat stalkers and Musical.ly yours

Living our lives on social media may be great for our personal brand, but it also means giving up a bit of our soul
Updated on Apr 20, 2018 08:12 IST

When ‘vanity’ is a phone number

To get her new SIM card, my mother called up our family astrologer to pick the number accordingly
Updated on Mar 31, 2018 19:24 IST

The proverbial power of words!

The beauty of Indian proverbs is that they sound pithy and powerful. They made me feel like an orator
Updated on Mar 3, 2018 15:28 IST

Heart in the right place

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Updated on Mar 27, 2009 17:48 IST

Muthalik and the Mahatma

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Updated on Feb 7, 2009 17:07 IST