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Challenges for journalists: Carrie Gracie, back in Beijing, ponders the riddles of modern China while Owen Bennett Jones wrestles with invented tradition on India's election trail

Carrie Gracie is back in Beijing as the 大象传媒's new China Editor. She ponders the riddles of modern Chinese society and finds there is no ready consensus among her friends in the city.

And, in Varanasi, while following the Indian election campaign, Owen Bennett Jones recently witnessed a timeless Hindu ritual on the banks of the holy River Ganges. Or did he? Some fact checking back at the office revealed that traditions, too, can sometimes be invented

(Photo: Carrie Gracie's newly-mined press card, issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry. 大象传媒 copyright)

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