The Elephant and the Dragon
I'm just back from the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, which was great. The 24-hour flight and 8 1/2-hour time difference are still killers though. I participated in a discussion about the future of India and China on my first evening at the festival, which was rebroadcast on ABC's programme The National Interest. I also gave a talk about my book, and participated in a panel discussion called People without Borders.
Apart from jetlag, one reason I haven't updated my blog for a while is that the Adelaide Hilton, where the Festival were very kindly putting me up, charges an outrageously expensive $25 for 2 hours' wireless internet access. So my internet time was tightly rationed, which was really tough for an internet junkie like me.
