Pallavi Aiyar’s book is a collection of personal essays covering selected periods between the 1980s and 2023. Written in a style that blends memoir with travel writing, Aiyar uses the metaphor of ...

While all the eyes in business and academia alike have their eyes on China and India, such poignant personal experiences and testimony of their relationship such as Pallavi Aiyar has assembled remain ...

How is Tokyo, a city of thirty million people, so safe that six-year-old children commute to school on their own? Why are there no trashcans in Japanese cities? Are there really seventy-two seasons in ...

Writer and foreign correspondent Pallavi Aiyar opened up about grief and illness with the wit and honesty and the deeply personal journey behind her latest book Travels in the Other Place. She has ...

MUMBAI, January 31, 2011- Although India and China are neighbors with a long and complex history, award-winning journalist and author Pallavi Aiyar claims that the countries are far from understanding ...

Chinese Whiskers is the name of a new novel written by journalist Pallavi Aiyar, who lived in Beijing for many years. The novel tells the story of present-day China seen from the eyes of two cats ...

So many topics are covered in journalist and travel writer Pallavi Aiyar’s latest book, a collection of essays titled Travels in the Other Place, that the only way I can tie them together in this ...

There are more Chinese and Indians than anyone else on earth, but they know astonishingly little of each other. Though diasporas from both nations have swept the world, it wasn’t until the past 20 ...

Pallavi Aiyar is the author of Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China. In large, populous and stratified countries, a viable social contract needs some way of promising equality of opportunity.

On my way out of the oncologist’s office on the day I was informed that I needed chemo, a nurse had handed me the phone number of someone “very discreet”. A week later, I walked into a boxy room on ...