July , 2007
Chinese whispers drown in dragon land
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The 10-day circus is finally over. Ten days spent trying to meet Chinese deadlines and catching up with tight schedules executed with military-like precision driven by our hosts.
Waking up by 6:30 am and breakfast at 7 was the normal fare in the mad rush to catch up with an itinerary that resembled the rich buffets laid out by our hosts.
Karma Paljor (C) with friends in China.
Airports were enormous, neat and practical. The highways close to Hema Malini's cheeks in texture and as broad as Dharmendra's shoulders zipped us between cities (buses did over 100 km/hr).
Buildings were huge and so were the parks. Chinese in their taste really began to resemble our Punjabis. Size matters to them and so everything is large - the Great Wall, the bell at Huaxi village, Tianenmen Square etc. Infrastructure was overwhelming.
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Karma Paljor has been a journalist for over 11 years. Having started with The Times of India in Mumbai, he moved to CNBC TV18 in 2001. Apart from covering national and political stories for the channel, Paljor also anchored the breakfast show on CNBC TV18. He bagged the Chevening scholarship for Broadcast journalism in 2004. A keen aviation watcher, he loves flying his model aircraft when not reporting about trouble in the skies. Paljor also did a half-hour programme on the problems plaguing the aviation sector in India in 2006, following which the civil aviation ministry suggested several changes including, an overhaul of infrastructure at Air Traffic Controls across India. Paljor, who has anchored every possible show on CNN-IBN, is an avid aeromodeller when time permits.
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