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