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Pallavi Aiyar’s Chinese Whiskers

Pallavi Aiyar’s first novel, Chinese Whiskers, a modern fable set in contemporary Beijing, will be published in January 2011. Aiyar currently lives in Brussels where she writes about Europe for the Business Standard. Below she gives permissions for an excerpt.

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Mr Wu and Family, by Pallavi Aiyar

One of communism’s lingering legacies in China was a basic belief in the dignity of labour and to me it was this belief that created the broadest gulf between India and China; a chasm ultimately much harder to bridge than that of GDP growth rates or flashy infrastructure.

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An Indian perspective on China: Pallavi Aiyar

Both China and India are experimenting with economic reforms although the pace and scope of these reforms differs. One of the greatest lacunae in India is administrative reform, so that we have a bloated administration that is not held to account for its shoddy implementation of legislation intended to help the poor. In China on the other hand, it’s the lack of political reform that hampers accountability.

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Black days for the Dålai Låma

Two perspectives on recent events in Tibet.

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