Superpower?: The Amazing Race Between China’s Hare and India’s Tortoise, by Raghav Bahl, Portfolio Penguin, RRP£20, 242 pages
For thousands of years, China and India had surprisingly little contact. Separated along a 3,500km border by the mighty Himalayas, they stared in opposite directions. These days they tend to be mentioned in the same breath – often to their mutual annoyance – united in the west’s perception by their blistering economic growth and massive populations.
Together they constitute well over one-third of humanity. Yet mutual ignorance, not to say mistrust, has persisted. Until 2002, there was not a single direct flight between them.
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