Pallavi Aiyar

Award-winning foreign correspondent Pallavi Aiyar has reported from
China and Europe for over a decade. Her China travelogue, Smoke
and Mirrors, won the Vodafone-Crossword Popular Book Award for
2008. Her novel, Chinese Whiskers, a modern fable set in China, was
published in America, Italy, Belgium and India. She is also the lead
author of the Lonely Planet guide China: For the Indian Traveller.
Pallavi Aiyar is now based in Jakarta, Indonesia.