May 20, 2010
Vikas Swarup, author of Slumdog Millionaiore, was quoted in the Shanghai Daily, that the Indian pavilion at the Expo is “stunning,” so I went there first. That author is a career diplomat now located in Japan, and he writes (he says) to fulfill an urge to use his talent. At the Indian pavilion the line [...]
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March 8, 2009
The Jin Jiang Hotel in the former French Concession The doorman was tall in his long coat, like the columns round him, and I marveled at his splendor while he removed my bags with the languor of the confident. The driver wasn’t so impressed and he started to leave with one bag still in the [...]
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