Delhi is jostling for an invite to the Obama banquet
In a city where political power determines social power, ceremonial banquets are the arbiter of your place in the food chain. The president’s banquet or the PM’s lunch or dinner always has Delhi’s Lutyensland working the phones and scurrying to the dry cleaners in case the prized invitation card lands at your doorstep.
So intense was the competition to get to the Clinton banquet in the last NDA government that then principal secretary in the PMO Brajesh Mishra was forced to declare that almost everyone of Delhi’s Bold and the Beautiful, “including some Leftists” wanted to be on the guest list and some had even demanded that Mishra make a statement on Read More
