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While I expect it will be some time until the participants of the India-China Writers Dialogues<\/a> publish anything about the event–these writers want to be thorough and accurate to both reality and emotion–I did come across another press report, from Express India<\/a>. It begins discussing the germ of the idea with Sharmistha Mohanty <\/a>and Bei Dao<\/a>, and moving on toward the following detail:<\/p>\n

Since the beginning of the dialogue two years ago, the participants have been the same group of writers, and Mohanty believes this has been a very important aspect. \u201cWith the same group of writers meeting each time, we have become good friends and learnt a lot from each other,\u201d she says. Besides the speakers for the panel discussion, the participants include Allan Sealy, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Adil Jussawalla, Vivek Narayanan and K Satchidanandan from India and Ge Fei, Xi Chuan, Zhai Yongming and Ouyang Jianghe from China.<\/p>\n

These discussions are not limited to analysing writing styles and such. In the course of these two years, the participants have exchanged a great deal about their histories and cultures, too. \u201cWe talk about a variety of things,\u201d says Mohanty. \u201cFor instance, what does tradition mean to us? How is it represented in our lives and works? Or how a writer wrestles with his past when he is writing. We discuss whether he rejects that long past or embraces it, and so on.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I expect it will be some time until the participants of the India-China Writers Dialogues publish anything about the event–these writers want to be thorough and accurate to both reality and emotion–I did come across another press report, from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[282,3,7],"tags":[280,279,50,196,243,236,241,240,69,1654,51],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-9j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":647,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=647","url_meta":{"origin":577,"position":0},"title":"Pictures from the India-China Writers Dialogues","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Almost Island editor Sharmistha Mohanty sent me the following pictures from the India-China Writers Dialogues. 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