Hindustan Times
India and China could not coexist without spats even during the six months from April to October set aside for friendship to celebrate the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties. Consider the highs and lows in August: Read more
(6 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Reshma Patil on Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Filed under China · Tagged 60th anniversary, Bollywood, Dalai Lama, dance diplomacy, diplomatic ties, happy anniversary, hindustan times, India Business Forum, Lt Gen B S Jaswal, Peking Opera hall, S. Jaishankar
“Welcome to the Indian rescue mission who come to China for the justice of human beings.” A young and earnest Indian doctor posed calmly in front of this banner after he arrived on an Indian medical mission in war-torn north China in 1938. Read more
(5 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Reshma Patil on Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Filed under China · Tagged basketball team, Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis, Dr Shan Chunguang, hindustan times, Indian rescue mission, Japanese invasion, martyrs, news, north China, one-room cottage, Wangfujing shopping avenue, Wen Jiabao
IT was a cart designed to transport products, not people.
I got onto the sanlunche — three-wheel cart — against my better judgment. In the Chinese villages, the cart is cool. There was no polite way to tell the hosts I preferred to walk or hire a private taxi. Read more
(4 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Reshma Patil on Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Filed under China · Tagged A Chinese Road Trip, bullet train station, car market, cart, Country Driving, cupcakes, driving license test, hindustan times, hutong, Peter Hessler, private taxi, road accident, sanlunche, tractors, wooden stool
No matter how long you live in China as a journalist, you may often wonder where’s the Party? Read more
(13 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Reshma Patil on Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Filed under China · Tagged Amazon, Beijing, bureaucracy, cell phone, China, Communist Party, fax machine, Financial Times, Firewall, Harper Collins, hotlines, journalist, Mao Xinyu, newsroom, Party, People's Liberation Army, PLA, Richard McGregor, The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, Tiananmen Square, travelogue, University in Beijing, websites
Over Sunday brunch with a smart, English-speaking Chinese postgraduate, I mentioned that it looked like China has overtaken Japan as the world’s second-biggest economy. Read more
(10 votes, average: 4.9 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Reshma Patil on Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 8:05 pm
Filed under China · Tagged Arthur Kroeber, carousel, Chinese, economy, English-speaking, hindustan times, news, postgraduate, Tom Cruise, world’s top exporter, Yi Gang, yuan
