Shoba Narayan is an author of four books, journalist, columnist and content creator. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, the Financial Times, The Atlantic and other publications. She has won a James Beard award and a Pulitzer Fellowship. Her lifelong mission is to get fit without exercising and lose weight without dieting.
As a columnist and a memoir writer, a fundamental question I confront when I begin a piece is this: Do I view and portray this topic as black-and-white, or do I allow for 50 shades of gray? The fact … Read more
The behemoth of Twitter has been a game-changer for journalism. It has become a tool for breaking stories, making — or breaking — careers, calling attention to issues, and giving a platform to people who long were denied a … Read more
It was while listening to a Tamil story on Spotify that the thought occurred to me: Listening to stories in vernacular Indian languages had changed my writing. Some of the influence came from the cadences of speech. Some came … Read more
How do you write about a shared event that changes the world, but that we each experience personally? And how do you then share that personal experience back to the world in a meaningful way? I’ve been pondering those … Read more
