Hindustan Times
Last week I was driving through Mehrauli to a friend’s farm off Sultanpur in Delhi. The stretch from Qutub Minar to M.G. Road brought back interesting thoughts. The first being of a gutsy IAS officer who dared take on the marble mafia, the second of the much frequented Chattarpur Temple and the last of Mrs Indira Gandhi’s farmhouse a little ahead. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4.2 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Chattarpur, Chattarpur Temple, delhi, IAS officer, Mehrauli, Mrs Gandhi, Mrs Indira Gandhi's farmhouse, Prime Minister, Sultanpur
During my recent trip to Kathmandu I met Nyla Bista. Nyla is the fist woman in Kathmandu to run a casino. Located at the five star Shangri-La, this casino, I am told, is also the first to have a woman CEO: Shalini Wadhwa, Nyla’s employer and a kind of a demi god to her. I did not meet Shalini because she was travelling. Considering every word Nyla uttered had a Shalini Ma’am to it, I guess I knew as much that I wanted to about Shalini without meeting her. Read more
(7 votes, average: 4.29 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Filed under India · Tagged casino, casinos, casinos in Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, Nyla, Shangri-La
