Here’s wishing everyone a very happy Navratri. Just as on St. Patrick’s Day, everyone’s Irish, during Navratri, we are all Gujju. For while it is celebrated in many parts of the country, no one does Navratri with as much panache as the Gujaratis. I recall wheedling out passes to some of the more well-appointed Navratri […]
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If you wanted to burgle posh pads in London, where would you go? The old English money is in Chelsea, Mayfair and Knightsbridge. The new Russian money is probably in Hampstead. Houses in these neighbourhoods would yield a rich haul to any enterprising thief. But Bonhams and Christie’s would ask rather uncomfortable questions on the […]
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