Pallavi Aiyar

Pallavi Aiyar is a journalist and author. Her most recent book is “Travels in the Other Place: Pursuing the Self in Eight Acts.”


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DATE POSTED
July 23, 2026
Essay Geopolitics & Globalization
The Real Problem Underlying India-China Tensions
If China reads India through the lens of colonial subordination, India reads China through the lens of betrayal.
DATE POSTED
February 7, 2023
Essay Future of Democracy
Purity Vs. Plurality In India
Narendra Modi’s brood of Hindu nationalists are ostensibly rooting for the return of an Indian civilizational state, but in fact are mere...
DATE POSTED
January 19, 2021
Essay Geopolitics & Globalization
I Would Rather Be Born A Woman In China Than India
The vanity projects and military gadgets that are meant to signal India’s arrival on the global stage are doomed to sputter and die unless the country can improve the...