After concrete conversations and pristine promises to open markets further to each other during Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to New Delhi and Mumbai last week, India and China this week landed on softer territory with cultural exchanges, a meeting of the minds and...
Digest this statistic – India and China eliminate more girls than are born in the U.S. every year. Annually almost 200 million girls go ‘missing’ worldwide. Gender genocide, or female infanticide as we better know is prominent and a reality even in...
Indian and Chinese heads of state, ministers and other high ranking government officials are expected to meet at two very influential summits within the next week. The first is the ongoing ASEAN Summit in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh and the next the BOAO...
China’s once-in-a-decade power transition was formalized on Thursday with 59-year-old Xi Jinping taking over from President Hu Jintao as the general secretary of the ruling Communist Party. Together with Li Keqiang, who was ushered in as Prime Minister, in...
The tea leaf whose humble journey from China to India centuries ago, heralded one of the most popular drinks on the subcontinent, is expected to lose her crown to the mighty coffee bean. Considered the brew of the newly affluent, the internationally well-travelled,...
Chinese director Zhang Yimou who directed the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and Red Sorghum, Nobel Laureate Mo Yan’s novel will be conferred the Lifetime Achievement award at a prestigious ceremony at the Mumbai Film Festival tomorrow. The acclaimed...
