India and China constantly bicker over the border and bilateral business, but the neighbours bond over judging suitable brides. Check this:

Xinhua, Nov 11: Some 1,500 young women have submitted applications in Guangzhou, capital of southern China’s Guangdong province, to attend a ball which hosts a field of single and quite wealthy men Read more

“Hello, this is Rajeev,’’ said the caller from Chinese telecom major Huawei, that operates its biggest overseas research and development centre in Bangalore since 1999.

As my taxi rolled down Beijing’s main east-west axis, past a gun toting commando guarding gardeners placing potted plants for China’s high-security military parade on October 1, I assumed that Rajeev was an Indian India spokesperson of Huawei. Read more

Your Chinese is good. Which country are you from?
India.
Ah. I don’t feel friendly toward India.

My Chinese friend and I were practising how to say ‘let’s stay in touch’ in Mandarin, when the taxi driver glanced behind to ask about my nationality and retort that he did not feel friendly toward India. Read more

“What is this dish called Chicken 65? Why do Indians think the Chinese eat only noodles? Why do Indians think all Chinese movies are about kung fu? Why is the India-China relationship only focussed on politics and trade?” Read more

Last week, for the first time ever, one public bus in China was wrapped on all sides with the Incredible India advertisement.

I wanted to ride on that solitary Yindu (India) bus. But first, I had to find it among over 18,000 public buses moving 13 million around Beijing every day. What better way, I thought, to get the Chinese to talk about India than on the top-deck of this particular bus? Read more

On Saturday night, we ordered idlis at one of Beijing’s two restaurants with a basic South Indian menu. I was not surprised when they said that the unpopular idlis and dosas were bumped off the downsized menu and the South Indian cook had gone home to India.

The previous week, while the rest of Beijing was away on holiday for the Lunar New Year, I had my loneliest dinner ever, at an upscale Indian restaurant. Read more