At 11 am, I took a seat opposite the police officer behind the counter. At 11.02 am I signed my name with the police station’s yellow smiley pen, having reached the end of my annual paper renewal trail as an alien. Read more

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Have you heard that Premier Wen Jiabao is in New Delhi? When I posted the question this week, I ended up informing some Beijingers that their leader happened to be in India.
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Posted by Reshma Patil on Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Filed under Rest of Asia · Tagged Beijing, bilateral relationship, Bollywood, Buddhism, Buddhist, China, chinese media, Gandhi, India, India-China bilateral relations, India-China dialogue, Indian students, Japan, Korea, Korean Peninsula, Lei Qu, Nehru, New Delhi, Premier Wen Jiabao, Thinker’s Café, US, Wen Jiabao, Yoga
As we entered the Peking University classroom where Arunachal Pradesh is studied as ‘southern Tibet,’ a student turned to me and asked why the Indian media is ‘so negative’ on China. Read more

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Posted by Reshma Patil on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Filed under China, Rest of Asia · Tagged Arunachal Pradesh, China, hindustantimes, India, Indo-china ties, news, Peking University, Reshma Patil, stapled visas, Tibet