Hindustan Times
When you read this, I’ll be in India after a gap of seven months and three weeks. It seemed twice as long.
Things that you take for granted as a routine part of life will be a luxurious new experience for me in India. Read more
(9 votes, average: 4.56 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Reshma Patil on Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Filed under China · Tagged Beijing, China, diplomatic ties, expats, Facebook, India, seven months
The more I travel in small-town China, the more I miss India and the more I marvel at India.
Technically, the small Chinatown concept is not always correct to describe the places I’ve been. But I can’t stop using the phrase because the biggest Chinese boomtowns with multibillion-dollar GDPs seem confined to a small world. Read more
(10 votes, average: 4.4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Reshma Patil on Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Filed under China · Tagged Bangalore, China, Chinatown, Chinese professionals, delhi, India, Mumbai
What defines a happy city?
Ahmedabad was by no measure India’s happiest city a year after the Gujarat earthquake of 2001 killed over 20,000 people. I am writing this blog on my first evening in Chengdu, China’s ‘happiest city’ according to a survey out last week that excluded Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou from the top 10 happy Chinese cities. Read more
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Reshma Patil on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Filed under China · Tagged Ahmedabad, Chengdu, Gujarat earthquake, Santa Claus, Sichuan Airline flight, Sichuan province, Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri
