HeyJaredPallavi Aiyar
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At this wellness retreat, your poo is everybodyâs business (opens the original)
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The room is slowly brightening with early light when there is a knock on the door. A middle-aged lady in a neatly pressed cotton uniform enters bearing a tray. Upon it are placed three paper cups filled with an assortment of concoctions, a single marigold flower between them. “Madam, bowel movement?” she asks by way of greeting. By now, only my third day at the retreat, I am acculturated to solicitous queries about the state of my poo. One might even say enthused. And so, I launch into more deta
Travels in the land of Gen Z (Part 2) (opens the original)
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As regular readers will be aware, I have often opined that the best way to travel is to appreciate a new land for what it is, rather than complaining about what it is not. Consequently, I was determined to approach my time with Gen Z with a similar frame of mind. It was easy to focus on their flaws, chief among which was denuded cognitive endurance, resulting from a fractured attention span. Cognitive endurance is the ability to sustain effortful mental activity over a continuous stretch of time
Travels in the land of Gen Z (opens the original)
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Since 2023, I have been back in the university classroom in the role of professor, following a two decade-long hiatus. The last time I was “Professor Aiyar” was in 2002-2003 when I taught English newswriting to students at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute. My latest stint in the classroom has me lecturing on Global Media Perspectives to students from a variety of prestigious United States universities, who are doing a semester abroad in Madrid, as part of their degrees. The idea is for me to i
The app life (opens the original)
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I am now just over one year old in Beijing. The all-synapses firing, hyper awareness that is part of the condition of being new to somewhere, has gentled into habit. I have learned the codes of city living in China today. I mean this quite literally. While every new place necessitates becoming familiar with social and cultural codes, the central organizing principle of life in Beijing is the QR code. The scanning of these is the language of travel, transaction and translation. The city seemingly
Of cats and writers (opens the original)
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Since Sunday, our family has had a cat-shaped hole at its center. After 19 years of bringing us daily joy, Caramel, was euthanized. He had been ill for almost a year, first with high blood pressure and later, cancer. By the end, he was blind and disoriented. And yet, somehow he found his kitty litter every evening, although there was diminishing bodily output over the weeks. He became skeletal, this cat who had loved nothing more than to eat. It was Caramel who had given my husband and I our fir
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