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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 08:58 PM | February 10,2012
All over the world, people are moving towards handmade, handcrafted local objects—made to measure and customized right in front of your eyes
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 10:14 PM | February 03,2012
Like every artist, they claim to be untouched by the market. “I don’t know that I was any ‘purer’ as a poor student artist than I am now,” says Jitish Kallats
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The Good life | Shoba Narayan 09:51 PM | January 27,2012
The India Art Fair is in full swing; and Delhi feels like it is at the centre of the universe. This is the trick that geography plays. When you are part of an event, part of its intellectual mindspace, you get drawn into its “reality distortion field”
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 08:29 PM | January 20,2012
Horses are capricious animals that don’t know their own strength
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Shoba Narayan | The Good life 09:58 PM | January 13,2012
Most comics are guys in boxer shorts, who lie on the couch, eat popcorn and come up with one-liners. In order to do comedy, you have to either be a loser or aspire to be a loser
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The Good life | Shoba Narayan 09:31 PM | January 06,2012
His style icons are strong, self-confident people who don’t need his clothes to enhance their identity
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 09:58 PM | December 30,2011
Tradition still holds sway over this coastal city that is now home to scorching Thai food and trendy tapas bars
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 09:22 PM | December 23,2011
So I have a message for Paul Pontallier: Come again to India with your subtle, amazing wines; but next time, dignify our palates by choosing a local chef for the meal
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 09:38 PM | December 16,2011
As someone who loves abstract and contemporary art, I am a little rattled by Prof. Goswamy’s obvious love for ancient Indian art
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 09:55 PM | December 09,2011
In the end, it is only a song, not world peace
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 09:02 PM | December 02,2011
I am thinking of changing my name. Just to see what happens
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 10:48 PM | November 25,2011
The piece de resistance, as far as I am concerned, is a beautiful Bengali woman who comes in carrying plates filled with fried bhetki and prawns; momos and dips
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The Good Life | Shoba Narayan 01:15 AM | November 18,2011
This grief is the kind that is felt by a whole family that watches a beloved pet lose life’s last battle. Grief is the sound of drips, the coldness of a metal stretcher, and the smell of antiseptic mixed with urine
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The Good life | Shoba Narayan 08:34 PM | November 10,2011
Someplace Else is cozy and dark. It has uncomfortable bar stools that jiggle when you crane your neck to watch the old-timers hum to the songs
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The Good life | Shoba Narayan 09:23 PM | October 27,2011
The hospitality industry spends countless hours training employees to act on certain principles: enhancing guest experience, prompt delivery of services, warm welcomes and goodbyes, among others
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