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...months he was in New Delhi, Blackwill became the most controversial diplomat in Indian memory. A tireless networker, he installed a round 16-seat dining table at which guests got a glimpse of the ambassador's style. One evening, according to Indian columnist Vinod Mehta, Blackwill reduced an academic nearly to tears by shouting, "Rubbish, rubbish!" in reply to her remarks and dismissed other interruptions, yelling, "I insist, I insist!" and continuing to speak. In 2002, after embassy staff members registered a slew of complaints about Blackwill's imperious manner, he was given a scathing review by the State Department...
...Delhi: Karim's Whatever you're eating, costs in India are unlikely to be high outside the five-star hotels. Whole roasted lamb?a Mogul specialty?costs just $83 at this popular venue. It will feed a large and hungry crowd, and must be ordered a day in advance. For $7, smaller parties can content themselves with a mere lamb...
...Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were each elected in his or her own right. They did not achieve office through natural succession. And now Sonia Gandhi has declined the position of Prime Minister, one that those in the opposition would give anything for. Sam Mathews New Delhi...
...projects, Nair divides her time primarily between New York, where her son Zohran attends school and her husband Mahmood Mamdani is a government professor at Columbia University, and her home in Kampala, Uganda, where Nair is an avid gardener. Her family also spends time in a home in New Delhi...
...taught at the Delhi School of Economics from 1963 through 1971, when he undertook several important projects in social choice theory—a branch of economics that addressed group decision-making by voters with different personal priorities...