India China: Neighbours Strangers

01 June, 2010

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Edited by Ira Pande

Harpercollins India

480 pages, Rs 699

A volume of essays, photographs and illustrations that attempts to create a kaleidoscope of responses to two ancient civilisations learning to cope with the pulls and pressures of modernity and with each other. Featuring KPS Menon, Harsh Pant, Kai Friese, Prem Shankar Jha, Meghnad Desai, Vikram Seth, Xiang Biao, K Subrahmanyam, Pallavi Aiyar, Dilip Simeon and others.

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