Hindustan Times
Recently a petition was sent to China’s top leadership and simultaneously to the UNESCO by right group about it alleged to be calculated destruction of Lhasa, capita of Tibet’s, heritage architecture. [Read more]
About Sutirtho Patranobis
Short, fat, nasty, nearing soft middle age. Pretentious and philistine. After 38 busy months as a lotus eater in Colombo, now in Beijing getting used to the haze that often drowns the day; and to the many Chinese who are willing to help someone struggling with Mandarin. Learnt to say subway instead of metro. Yet to pass the acid test of picking up a peanut with chopsticks.
Throughout the last few weeks, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, the petite, mostly smiling Hua Chunying remained delightfully vague when asked about the border spat. She happily peppered her responses with words and phrases like “peace”, “tranquility at the border”, “relevant mechanisms” and so on. [Read more]
The world focused attention these past days on the Boston bombings. And as China grieved over the Chinese student who died in the blasts and for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake, discussions among many on Chinese social media platforms and around tea tables also centered on the three campus murders that had jolted the education community and society in general. [Read more]
The Beijing International Film Festival ((BIFF) is a comparatively new festival compared to its counterpart in Shanghai. But it has had its share of controversies. [Read more]
The long, cold winter is finally making way for a chilly and breezy spring in Beijing. It was the longest ever winter for me; the first bout of snowfall was in the first days of November and at the end of last month was, hopefully, the last snowfall of this winter. In between, temperatures plummeted to some -18 degrees on Christmas Eve and stepping out of my centrally heated home meant putting on and putting up with around five layers of clothes. [Read more]
