Orienting: An Indian in Japan
How is Tokyo, a city of thirty million people, so safe that six-year-old…
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Jakarta Tails: The Continuing Adventures Of Soyabean and Tofu
A cat’s-eye view of human foibles, Pallavi Aiyar’s new novel is as much…
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A Thousand Cranes for India: Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred
In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper…
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Babies and Bylines
Pallavi Aiyar is a hard-nosed, award-winning foreign correspondent. She’s used to working in…
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Reviews
Interpreting the world through a feline’s point of view
Soyabean and Tofu have the potential to become distinctive figures with adventures to look forward to. Aiyar has a sharp eye for cat behaviour,…
Japan Beyond the Cliches
The book will make you chortle with laughter if you appreciate a sense of humour that delights in literary allusions.
Feline Fables
Under oodles of feline appeal, this is a story of distrust, othering, fanaticism, prejudice. As also the flip side of the coin: basic decency,…
Best Books for Kids Age 9-12
Jakarta Tails is the second pacy book about the globe-trotting former Beijing alley cats Soyabean and Tofu. Just as the cats are settling into…
Jakarta Tails: Review
It’s a delightful story and although it can certainly be read by children 12 and up, it would be a light read for adults.…
Tokyo Olympics 2020 | Views of Japan, and its impact on the world
Orienting is a melange of personal anecdotes, reportage, and observations from the four years she spent in the country, interspersed with the occasional haiku.…
Book review: Orienting
"Aiyar is a professional outsider, adept at dropping into an entirely alien culture, and ready to grab hold of it with both hands... she…
Pagalpanti in Japan
Pallavi Aiyar writes with charm, humour and occasional bafflement about the many things that made life in Japan seem stranger than fiction.
A moving portrait of the country, by a globetrotting journalist
"Orienting is a memorable memoir of absorption of culture and making a place home, of engaging with the unfamiliar with curiosity, respectfully and without…
A delightful surprise in every chapter
I was enchanted. There is a delightful surprise in every chapter of this charming, highly readable book about the weft and warp of daily…