Off to join the Raj in their summer capital
March 9th 2013 We'd spent yesterday amid the clamour and cacophony of Delhi's characterful monuments and charismatic markets (see A capital with a capital 'C').
At five o'clock this morning, a more different view could hardly be imagined.
There was only the merest hint of daylight. There was a chill in the air. There were no buzzing tuk-tuks, no honking horns, not even a background hum of traffic.
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