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...gold and amber silk. The place is heated by 20 gas burners and illuminated by 25 chandeliers, 40 lanterns, 66 spotlights and 288 candles. Tradition dictates that separate celebrations be held for the groom, the bride, their engagement and their families and friends. So Chopra, a prominent New Delhi physician, plans to throw five parties over seven days. He expects the festivities to set him back tens of thousands of dollars-and that doesn't count the wedding itself. "I tell you," he says, "the wedding business is the best bloody business in India...
...wedding boom, though, has brought some social strains. Because good weather and good astrology coincide so rarely, millions of weddings are held on a few select nights during the cool winter season. In Delhi, that means up to 15,000 weddings a night, causing dusk-to-dawn gridlock for 14 million residents, as hundreds of thousands of guests cross town, park on the sidewalks and later weave unsteadily back home. To rein in the fun, local police have begun raiding unlicensed wedding parties and impounding gifts as evidence. In anticipation of the estimated 30,000 weddings scheduled in the city...
...Delhi continues to be a frustration for lovers of architecture. With its eight centuries of grand mosques, emperors' tombs and ruined forts, it has an architectural heritage to rival that of great imperial cities like Istanbul and Rome. Yet anyone who has tried to find the relics of Delhi's glorious past will tell you of the horrible difficulties set in their path by the city's present squalor...
...notebook item, "No Changing His Stripes," about Bolivia's new President, Evo Morales and his omnipresent striped pullover [Jan. 23], made me wish there were more leaders like Morales who would pay less attention to how they look for photo ops and more to their job. Anurag Chatrath New Delhi...
...summer question”––soon to gain ubiquity with the approach of spring––is a guilty pleasure.And for good reason. Whether in New York, at the Times or Goldman Sachs, or in New Delhi with WorldTeach, most Harvard students have few limitations to the opportunities they can pursue over the summer or the people they can impress by sharing them.Most, but not all. Harvard’s financial aid policy currently requires all students receiving support from the College to contribute $2,000 from their summer earnings...