Beyond Binaries: The World of India and China by Shastri Ramachandran is a timely intervention about India-China comparisons as it contextualises various developments unfolding in China in the last one and a half decades, foregrounding them with an Indian view. The book comes as an antithesis when it is indeed fashionable to emphasise the binaries of India and China rooted in competition and conflict. Shastri presents a convincing argument by laying out brief pieces about China, India-China relations, and their world, making the book lucid and appealing to readers interested.