• Orienting: An Indian in Japan

    Orienting: An Indian in Japan

    How is Tokyo, a city of thirty million people, so safe that six-year-old children commute to school on their own?…

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  • Jakarta Tails: The Continuing Adventures Of Soyabean and Tofu

    Jakarta Tails: The Continuing Adventures

    A cat’s-eye view of human foibles, Pallavi Aiyar’s new novel is as much a humorous and poignant snap-shot of contemporary…

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  • A Thousand Cranes for India: Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred

    A Thousand Cranes for India: Reclaiming

    In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their wishes realized. But…

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  • Babies and Bylines

    Babies and Bylines

    Pallavi Aiyar is a hard-nosed, award-winning foreign correspondent. She’s used to working in the trenches of global journalism, from interviewing…

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  • Choked!

    Choked!

    Choked!, tells the story of pollution in two of the world’s most polluted, yet economically successful, cities: Beijing and New…

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  • Punjabi Parmesan

    Punjabi Parmesan

    When after several years in China, journalist Pallavi Aiyar moves to Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union, she discovers…

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  • China for the Indian traveller

    China for the Indian traveller

    A vast, pulsating land of surprises, China is at once familiar and exotic. The sheer range of experiences that it…

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  • Chinese Whiskers

    Chinese Whiskers

    Chinese Whiskers is a modern fable set in the chaotic and ever-changing landscape of early twenty first century Beijing. Soyabean…

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  • Smoke and Mirrors

    Smoke and Mirrors

    Pallavi Aiyar's witty debut recounts her five-year long experience of China. China is at an historical point where tradition and…

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