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...TRAVEL India: Signs of Life in Delhi...
LIVIN' OUT LOUD As a pulsing center of Asian nightlife, New Delhi has long been up there with, say, Pyongyang. Excluding five-star hotels and private clubs, there are only five bars and three nightclubs in a city of almost 14 million people. And yet, tired of tales from glittering Bollywood parties or raging Bangalore pub life, New Delhi's society writers are now peddling the rumor that theirs is fast becoming a happening capital. So is it? Simply, no. The bitter truth is that the only place ever to have known a paparazzi stakeout is T.G.I. Friday...
...Time your visit to coincide with one of the occasional Cyber Mehfil parties put on by DJ duo Midival Punditz. As awful as a night with the "New Delhi Drum 'n Bass Posse" might sound, this is without doubt the best club from Bangkok to Beirut; for more info, go to cybermehfil.com...
...fact, hotels are just about the only place that will serve up good international fare. But if you're itching to go stand-alone, New Delhi boasts two independent Italian bistros: Senso in Vasant Vihar and Diva in Greater Kailash II. At both eateries, the d?cor is stylish, the food so so and the music dreadful. But, hey, this is New Delhi, and one out of three isn't that...
...HISTORY Bare-bottomed squatters beside railway lines are many tourists' first?and sometimes lasting?impression of India. Even Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul, revolted upon visiting his ancestral homeland, once raged that "Indians defecate everywhere ... they never look for cover." It is therefore a bit surprising to find in New Delhi the world's only museum dedicated to the history of the toilet. But then this is a small museum with a big mission, as the sign opposite the entrance reading OPEN DEFECATION?SOCIAL CURSE can attest...