Families torn apart as China, India bond

August 12, 2013 11:29

Every evening after dinner, at 10pm in Beijing, software executive Sangeetha Narayan flips open her laptop and logs into her Skype account for a chat she describes as "soul-saving'.

At the other end of the call is her seven-year-old daughter Meena, a Class II student who lives nine months each year with her grandparents in Bangalore.

Meena is a victim of an unlikely tension shearing families apart at the frontiers of the growing ties between India and China. Read

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