Travels in the Other Place: An evening with Pallavi Aiyar

We'd like to invite you to an evening with award-winning foreign correspondent, columnist, and author PALLAVI AIYAR, who will be in conversation with IONA DE MACEDO about Aiyar’s latest book, Travels in the Other Place.

From her bookish childhood in 1980s India to her 2022 shock cancer diagnosis in Spain, Pallavi Aiyar has been a lifelong wayfarer. Journeying through decades, languages and continents, she has gathered a kaleidoscope of lenses through which to view the terrain without, and the self within.

Travels in the Other Place is an original and insightful collection of personal essays that takes a deep dive into themes of identity and belonging across varied landscapes- both physical and metaphorical. Blending memoir, philosophy and travel writing, these are eight discrete encounters with Pallavi at different ages, in different locations. A witty and humane meditation that excavates the personal—illness, passports, parenting, even hair— to reveal sharp universal truths about navigating life in a globalized, yet fractured, world.

PALLAVI AIYAR is a territorially polygamous, award-winning, foreign correspondent, columnist, and author. She has spent over two decades reporting from China, Belgium, Japan, Indonesia, and Spain. She is the author of eight books, including Smoke and Mirrors, Punjabi Parmesan, Babies and Bylines and Orienting. Her latest work is Travels in the Other Place: Pursuing the Self in Eight Acts. Pallavi writes a weekly newsletter on global travel and culture on substack, The Global Jigsaw. She is currently based in Beijing, China.

IONA DE MACEDO is a film producer and Associate Dean at IE University’s School of Communication and Digital Media.

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