FORTHCOMING
Pallavi Aiyar is a foreign correspondent and an author, and currently based in Madrid, Spain. She is the deputy Editor-in-Chief of the online magazine, The Globalist. Major publications include: Orienting: An Indian in Japan (2021), and New Old World: An Indian Journalist Discovers the Changing Face of Europe (2015). She served as advisor to the Confederation of Indian Industry on China-related issues. In 2010 she was recognized by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for her work in furthering Sino-Indian relations.
COMING SOON
An Indian in Japan
Saturday, 16th November, 2024
For an Indian, Japan can be both confoundingly strange and comfortingly familiar. Pallavi Aiyar will discuss her encounters – aesthetic, political and epidemiological – with the country from where she reported for Indian and international publications for 4 years. From the philosophical importance of the tea ceremony, to Japan's surprising love affair with curry, the talk will cover some of the main insights from her bestselling Japan memoir book, Orienting.
December 7, 2024, Saturday
Gujarati diaspora in Japan:
Gujarat-Japan relations through interdisciplinary approach
The research paper was published at the Gandhi Shakespear institution in August 2024 based on the researcher’s field work observing Gujarati diaspora community in Japan. The objectives of the research are; to understand how Gujarati merchants came and settled in Japan, and how their business developed in the host country. And to understand the correlation between economic expansion desire and proactive immigration drive, prone to Gujarati merchants and traders since medieval time. The discussion will further elaborate to consider how Gujarat-Japan future relation to be.
​After having worked at American companies for 2 decades, Mitsuko Takahashi started her consulting company in 2015 to support Japanese SMEs entering Indian market. Since 2021 she has been pursuing PhD at Gujarat Technological University (A comparative study on family business succession between Gujarat and Japan). Earlier, she studied at the M.S University Baroda under the Indian Government Scholarship.
