Pallavi Aiyar launches her new book in Beijing
Indian author and journalist Pallavi Aiyar has launched her latest book, Travels in the Other Place: Pursuing the Self in Eight Acts, at a get-together.
Travels in the Other Place is a blend of her memoirs, philosophy, and travel writing. The book, in her words, is an original and introspective collection of eight essays that explore identity and belonging across shifting geographies-both physical and emotional.
Spanning a life that stretches from a bookish childhood in 1980s India to a shock cancer diagnosis in Spain in 2022, the book offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the self in motion, she said.
It turns the lens of a foreign correspondent inward with insights that are both personal and universal, she said while interacting with Beijing-based journalists and literary personalities on Thursday.
Over a career spanning more than two decades, Aiyar has reported from China, Belgium, Japan, Indonesia, and Spain, besides India.
She is the author of seven books, among them Smoke and Mirrors, a China memoir that won the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award, as well as Chinese Whiskers, Jakarta Tales, Punjabi Parmesan and Orienting: An Indian in Japan.
