尽管对印度缺乏了解,但部分中国商人意识到印度是巨大的消费市场。2008年来到北京的蕾什玛·帕蒂尔是印度纸媒仅有的4名驻华记者之一。她的《跨越边界的陌生人:印度人遭遇新兴中国》谈到了中印两国民众生活的大量细节。从印度人的角度看,此书最有趣的部分是中国人对印度的无知。帕蒂尔参观北京一个致力于推广板球的中心,发现运动员们没听说过印度板球明星,没听说过板球世界杯,看起来也更喜欢打乒乓球。她发现学外语的中国大学生总将印度贬为肮脏贫穷的落后国家。一个广泛流传的误解是印度是佛教国家。而印度似乎懒得纠正 Despite a lack of understanding of India, some Chinese businessmen recognize that India is a huge consumer market. Lacey Patil, who came to Beijing in 2008, is one of only four correspondents in India to print media. Her “Stranger Across Borders: Indians Encountered Emerging China” spoke in great detail about the lives of both China and India. From the Indian perspective, the most interesting part of the book is Chinese ignorance of India. Patil visited a center in Beijing dedicated to promoting cricket and found that athletes had never heard of cricket stars in India, had not heard of Cricket World Cup, and even preferred to play table tennis. She found that Chinese undergraduates who learn a foreign language always relegated India to a dirty and poor backward country. One widespread misconception is that India is a Buddhist country. India seems too lazy to correct