It is generally acknowledged that China is well on its way to becoming a superpower.
Newspapers traditionally use a navigational tool called "cross-refer" on the front page to guide readers to a related story on an inside page.
I played host to two friends from India during the National Day holiday. Dutifully - and grudgingly - I took them to the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall, among other attractions; cleverly telling them that the Summer Palace is best seen only in summer.
Robin Williams once asked why it's called rush hour when nothing moves.
Alan Greenspan's oft-quoted warning of "irrational exuberance" did not prick the Internet stock bubble in 1996 - it merrily continued to inflate until the crash at the turn of the century.
Some people may not know it, but a World Cup is being played now. In the part of the world I come from, it's simply the World Cup; the soccer version usually follows three years later.
Time magazine famously had YOU as the Person of the Year for 2006 essentially for being interactive.
When the founder of one of India's greatest industrial empires was audacious enough to think of building a steel plant in the late 19th century, it drew derision from a senior British colonial official.
The time has come to talk of many things, not of cabbages (plentiful in Beijing winters) or why the sea is boiling hot (global warming?).
If you happened to cast a cursory glance at Chinese newspapers over the past few months, you might be forgiven for thinking there had been an outbreak of golf-itis.
First, a confession: In the brash years of my youth, I decided 40 was old, and time enough to retire and live life to the fullest.
India, revelling in its new-found economic might, came up with what I thought was a catchy slogan at this year's World Economic Forum summit in Davos: India Everywhere.
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