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Pallavi Aiyar

Pallavi Aiyar is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has spent the last two decades reporting from China, Europe, Indonesia and Japan. Her most recent book is Orienting: An Indian in Japan. She is a contributor to Open

A Spanish Mélange
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A Spanish Mélange

The shape-shifting syncretism of the Iberian Peninsula

03 February 2023
No Dustbins Please, We’re Japanese
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No Dustbins Please, We’re Japanese

A culture of cleanliness with a zero-waste policy

20 January 2023
The End of Indonesia As We Know It?
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The End of Indonesia As We Know It?

The new penal code will make it a less liberal country

06 January 2023
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Air Apparent

Beijing’s success in tackling pollution is a lesson for Delhi

25 November 2022
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The Flemish Connection

How to make cricket a truly global sport

11 November 2022
Essay
Absolute Xi

Having dismantled the system of collective leadership, the Chinese president will now need more than loudspeaker nationalism

21 October 2022
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The Pet Peeves of Expats

They should marvel at what a place is rather than complain about what it is not

07 October 2022
The Revision Fetish
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The Revision Fetish

Does renaming streets or demolishing statues redeem history?

23 September 2022
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Abe’s Unfinished Business

Can Japan spend more on defence without changing its pacifist constitution?

09 September 2022
Columns
A Passage to the Company?

An encounter with the Kafkaesque British visa regime

26 August 2022

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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