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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 09:38 PM | November 19,2009
Bombay, more than any other Indian city, arouses loyalty and a dose of envy
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 08:59 PM | November 05,2009
Gender parity is desirable for individuals and countries, but ultimately living your life as a woman involves not just competing with the males but also cherishing those qualities which make both women and men gloriously different and therefore unique
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 09:38 PM | October 29,2009
Nilgiris or Darjeeling? Which is better? That is the question. Does it matter?
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 01:15 AM | October 23,2009
Being a not-so-good singer, I guess I simply must sit down beside the drone of my tanpura and just sing the lofty top notes of the Saramati raga that I seek to embrace
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 09:24 PM | October 16,2009
It is a catchy line for sure, but it is based on what Freud called the “pleasure principle”, rather than its counterpart: the reality principle
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 10:45 PM | October 08,2009
Most people who own autorickshaws or ride them want to get the hell out of them; which, if you are one of those contrarian, weird people like me, is a true compliment
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 09:27 PM | October 01,2009
The moon has fascinated scientists and philosophers, astronomers and astrologers, poets and politicians
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 09:14 PM | September 24,2009
Custom tailoring is the promise and pleasure of India, but also, in my experience, a landmine fraught with disappointment
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 08:16 PM | September 18,2009
The flip side of civility has to do with selling and it is when your civility gets tested
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 09:08 PM | September 10,2009
Chicory gives coffee its girth. New Orleans coffee comes mixed with chicory as do some Italian ones. Some say that chicory gives them indigestion; others say that it keeps the blood glucose levels down
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 08:45 PM | September 03,2009
The difference between south and north Indian weddings has to do with a single factor: liquor
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 10:51 PM | August 30,2009
The thing with freedom is that you have got to know what to do with it. Idiotic allusions to butterflies and rainbows are not enough
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 11:05 PM | August 28,2009
T balancer to the meat-eaters who sing the pleasures of pork chops and mutton biryani. Non-vegetarian delights may be beyond our palate’s reach but namkeens are egalitarian; available to all
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 09:04 PM | August 21,2009
Sickness is a great unifier. Joy comes occasionally, sadness can be temporal but sickness and death spare no one
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 01:15 AM | August 08,2009
Do you want danger and speed or comfort and engineering? The twain can never meet; and indeed, they shouldn’t
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