Renu Chahil-Graf
Renu is a freelance writer working globally. Her writing is published in LeNews Switzerland, Sommelier India, Cornell University News, and other publications, as credited.
Renu has a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Prior to her career as a writer, she worked for various United Nations organisations, in locations spanning New York to Nairobi, Bangkok to Brasilia...
She runs the eclectic Divonne Book Club and organises live music concerts in Renu's Music Room.
Renu's Music Room
A Walk in the Park
The man behind a film festival spanning 5 continents
Only someone with very broad shoulders would take on a film festival covering five continents! This someone is Hervé Gransart, director of a festival now in its 12th year. This year ...>>
Film-Jazz
Move over Montreux. True Jazz lovers go to Cully
On a sunny spring evening, the setting by the shore of Lake Geneva blows the mind away. It does not get better than this picture-postcard Swiss locale. It’s not just the lake but the 30 kilometre backdrop of.... >>
Wine
Sublime REDS from a region famous for whites
Renu Chahil-Graf is excited about her discovery of Maso di Villa wines in the hills of Conegliano.
The glass was swirled, the aroma breathed in deep, and breathed in again, it was already unbelievable. Eventually >
Saas Fee Stories
Saas-Fee Stories is a work in progress. It aims to show the evolution of a Swiss mountain village from poverty to prosperity to ... >>
This & That
Basel Fasnacht – Renu reports from the ground
Like me, many expats in Geneva are determined to go to the famous Basler Fasnacht. But year after year they ruminate and decide they’ll go next year. And it’s not only expats. A charming Swiss lady I met on the train this morning confessed that ...>>