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Book Talk

Choked: Inside the World’s Most Polluted Cities

Wednesday, January 25, 2017   19:30 - 21:00

Speaker:
  • Pallavi Aiyar (Award winning foreign correspondent and author)

Choked, tells the story of pollution in two of the world’s most polluted, yet economically successful, cities: Beijing and New Delhi. Part memoir and part investigative report, Choked is topical and urgent. Drawing on her experience of living and raising two small children in Delhi, Beijing and Jakarta, author Pallavi Aiyar describes the trajectory of the fight against air pollution, gets expert opinion on assessing poor air quality and how it affects the health, lists the lessons that Delhi can learn from Beijing’s successes and failures, and points out why short-term measures won’t work.

Date & Time:
Wednesday, January 25, 2017   19:30 - 21:00 (Doors open at 19:00)
Venue:
1F Parliament (student lounge), Azabu Hall
Temple University, Japan Campus
2-8-12 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Moderator:
Kyle Cleveland (ICAS Associate Director)
Registration:
If possible, we ask you to register by E-mail (icas@tuj.temple.edu) , but we always welcome participants even you do not register. / 参加登録はなしでも参加できますので、直接会場へお越しください。

Speaker:

Pallavi Aiyar

Award winning foreign correspondent and author

Pallavi Aiyar is an award winning foreign correspondent and author. She has reported from across China, Europe, Indonesia and Japan contributing to numerous publications.

Pallavi is the author of the 2008 China-memoir, Smoke and Mirrors, which won the Vodafone-Crossword Popular award. Her 2011 novel, Chinese Whiskers was published in the United States, Europe and India. She is also lead author of a Lonely Planet guide to China. Her Punjabi Parmesan: Dispatches from a Europe in Crisis, is a unique Indian-Chinese take on contemporary Europe’s crises. Her latest book, Choked: Living Inside the World’s Most Polluted Cities and is an in-depth look at air pollution in New Delhi and Beijing.

In 2010 she was recognized by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for her work in furthering Sino-Indian relations, and in 2014 she was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. She is also a Brains Trust member of the IMD-based think tank, the Evian Institute.

Pallavi has first class degrees from Delhi University, Oxford University, the London School of Economics and the University of Southern California.

She currently based in Tokyo, Japan.
For further information, please visit: http://www.pallaviaiyar.com/

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