New book alert (yippee)
...and a few other thingies
Hola Jigsawers,
Mid-week announcement about a few things.
1) Super-duper-uber excited to share the cover of my new book on Japan, ORIENTING: An Indian in Japan. It will be released late next month, by the good people at Harper Collins India. Available for preorder on Amazon in a few days.(Kindle here, physical book by the end of the week.)
The book will also be available in Japanese by the end of the year, published by Hakusuisha.
Advance praise from the great and good:
“I was enchanted. There is a delightful surprise in every chapter of this charming, highly readable book about the weft and warp and moral complexity of daily life in inscrutable Japan."
Gurcharan Das
"'Pallavi Aiyar has written a revealing, witty, sensitive, empathetic, insightful and highly readable book on understanding the inscrutable Japanese and their opaque society, It is equal to a dozen learned books on this subject'."
Pavan Varma
"Japan has long fascinated Indian political leaders, cultural personalities, administrators and scholars. One of the hit Bollywood films when I was a teenager was called Love in Tokyo. Buddhism has tied the two together. Pallavi Aiyar’s perspective is, however, distinctive.
She is an intrepid globe-trotter and a delightful story-teller. Having written earlier about her stints in China, Europe and Indonesia, she now turns her sharp eye for the unusual on Japan. Orienting will be of great value to the serious reader. But it's most engaging manner, makes it accessible to anyone seeking to understand the many complexities of Japanese society."
Jairam Ramesh
Get ready to order your copies and learn about
How is Tokyo a city of 30 million people so safe that six-year-old children commute to school on their own?
Why are there no trashcans in Japanese cities?
Are the Japanese racist?
Why did people in Japan wear masks in public, eve before the COVID pandemic?
What's with the "hidden" Ganesha idols on Japan
And everything you ever wanted to know about Cherry Blossoms :-)
2) I’ll be speaking about the Diversity Divident at the national/societal level at the Salzburg Global Seminar on Thursday June 24th at Thursday from 17.30 - 19.00 (European time)
3) And now for something completely different :-)
Catch me and Samrat Chaudhutry and Viktor Mallet discussing rivers and travel, rivers and literature, rivers and politics as part of the India International Center’s River Dialogue, this Friday, June 25, at 4:00pm-5:00pm (Indian Time)
