With the western world still reeling from the effects of the global financial crisis, Chindia boosting is more in vogue than ever before.
Journalist Prem Shankar Jha’s book is a timely intervention, critiquing the inevitability of this idea. It’s a cautionary discourse, detailing the deep-seated and as yet unresolved conflicts that both nations must address if they are to successfully “reorientalise” the world.