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...places to stay, two hotels stand out. The city center's Imperial Hotel on Janpath, tel: (91-11) 334 1234, has resurrected itself from a shabby, colonial relic to a polished celebration of marble, huge ceilings and fine carpets. There are three great restaurants and a huge bar that packs in the young on weekends. But the truly chic should head for The Manor, an 18-room boutique hotel set in a secluded southern garden in Friend's Colony. The owners have combined modish veneer, glass and low lighting with traditional Indian textiles and a hint of colonial style...
...atrocity's immediate aftermath, Gandhi supporters on streets across , India wanted to strike back but lacked clear-cut targets for their fury. As the news reached the capital that night, roving groups of young men with stubbly faces and mean looks converged on No. 10 Janpath, Gandhi's home in the heart of New Delhi. They were a rough, ill-clad bunch, much the sort that had gone berserk after Indira's murder and slaughtered thousands of Sikhs around the capital. Their mood worsened as the night wore on, and they beat up several cameramen for no apparent reason. Some...
...coffin and bore it to a blue-and-silver Soviet Aeroflot IL-18 airliner for the 3½-hour flight to a mourning New Delhi and reunion with Shastri's grief-stricken family. As Indian generals carried the flag-covered body into his home at 10 Janpath (People's Way), Shastri's wife Lalita threw herself on her dead husband and kissed his face. "Shastriji, you have left me alone!" she wailed...
Each morning he appeared in the dining room of the Hotel Janpath at 8-"If my staff people have any problems, they can find me there." Three-quarters of an hour later, he was in his office to begin a day's work that combined the functions of guru, watchdog, troubleshooter, father confessor and cheerleader. Visser 't Hooft is especially pleased with the smooth sailing of the Russian Orthodox into the World Council; increasing the Orthodox representation was his longstanding concern...
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