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Pallavi Aiyar
Pallavi Aiyar
Pallavi Aiyar is a journalist and author of Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China. She is currently based in Tokyo.

Shinkansen: India and Japan’s silver bullet for a rising China

Indian PM Narendra Modi and Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe in front of an E5 series Shinkansen bullet train. Photo: Bloomberg
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Rajinikanth: The Tamil star who has a cult following in Japan

Worshipped like a god in India, Rajinikanth scored an unlikely breakthrough with ‘Muthu’ – which filled Tokyo cinemas, ran for 23 weeks and grossed US$1.6m
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Olympic toilets: Japan has the gold standard

Japanese company Inax’s flagship toilet ‘Regio’ at the Shanghai expo. Photo: AFP

Girls, don’t wish upon a star – just go there

Society is still not encouraging females to enter the space race, but Naoko Yamazaki helped to shatter a stratospheric glass ceiling
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Delhi, where China’s pollution seems like nothing

Indian commuters on a polluted road in the Anand Vihar district of New Delhi. Photo: AFP
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India and Indonesia are two of a kind

These two eclectic democracies share more in common than India and China, yet they are rarely hyphenated.
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