Indians in Beijing Archives

Dispatches from Beijing: How author Pallavi Aiyar’s writing captures China, Europe, and the human condition

by Minal Nirmala Khona | Dec 16, 2024

(December 16, 2022) Pallavi Aiyar was an English teacher in Beijing, when the SARS broke out in 2002. She travelled with 39 other journalists from Beijing to Lhasa, making the 4000-km long, historical journey by train on the world’s highest highland railway. The...

Plot twist: How Dev Raturi went from waiter to restaurateur to one of China’s best loved actors

by Darshana Ramdev | Oct 24, 2024

(October 24, 2024) Dev Raturi fondly remembers his pahad in Uttarakhand, although nearly 20 years have passed since he last called it home. In 2005, armed with a job offer from a friend, and lots of dreams for his future, Raturi scraped funds together to buy himself a...