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...From the window of Boucheron’s apartement looking onto the Place Vendôme, I imagine the momentous day in early August 1928 when HH Maharaja Sir Bhupinder Singh of Patiala made his way across the cobblestones...
...In further reading, try this polemic from Asheem Singh of UK think-tank, the RSA....
...Fraught geopolitics Last year, thousands of Chinese and Indian soldiers converged on the crystal blue lakes and barren crags of Ladakh, an inhospitable high-altitude desert....
...“The signal she sends is that rich Indians deserve to be penalised,” wrote the columnist Tavleen Singh....
...This number has risen to 32.4 per cent -- it was just 6.8 per cent the last time they consulted their crystal balls in March....
...The lobby, fringed with Indian jaali-work railings, is decorated with antique crystal and Portuguese tiles, each table packed with Chinese vases salvaged from Mumbai mansions....
...Most such alluvial diamonds are tiny, natural octahedral crystals. Rarely, however, a diamond as large as a hen’s egg would be found. One such was the Koh-i-Noor....
...On his return to Britain in 1894, Hume bought a property in Upper Norwood (Crystal Palace), and took to collecting and preserving plants....
...On his desk is a glass crystal representation of the Sikh Khanda, which symbolises the integration of the spiritual and temporal — the cornerstone of much of his life’s work....
...The closing jhalas swelled and broke and swelled again over and over, Modarelli’s fingerwork sparkling like progressive rock as drums and keyboards and Gurdain Singh Rayatt’s tabla flickered and pattered...
...A senior UN official said on Wednesday it was “crystal clear” that the US has broken international law and called for accountability....
...Rajesh Pratap Singh, Elle India’s designer of the year in 2007, uses hand-appliquéd metallic shapes and sequins to add sparkle to his minidresses, which appeal to buyers from Brazil to China....
...I borrowed a helmet worn by an F1 driver last year and recreated it in fine crystal glass....
...At Tahiliani’s show, male and female models hit the catwalk in blood-reds, deep maroons and golds weighed down with crystals....
...Another stand-out gown – and Roberts’s favourite – is a gothic blood-red pannier dress with Swarovski crystal-encrusted peacock feathers embroidered on the sleeves and bodice....
...The crystal gallery in Udaipur’s Fateh Prakash Palace, billed as “the world’s single largest private collection of crystal under one private roof”, provides glittering evidence of Indian fascination for...
...Under the ballroom’s crystal chandeliers, Nepal’s Maoists are holding court....
...Instead, Mr Singh’s style is “simple, constructed, with subtle details”....
...Everywhere is exquisite quality – even in the objects we now find rather hard to love, such as the overstuffed red plush and cut crystal armchairs that the Maharana of Mewar ordered in 1880 from F&C Osler...
...The Chinese figures came as Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister, said New Delhi was ready to boost public spending and cut interest rates to sustain economic growth....
...Simon Singh is the co-author of ‘Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial’, published in April (Bantam)...
...Arab, Hollywood, Bollywood and a “crystal ball” are themes he has recently worked to produce. As expectations increase, so does the pressure to stage ever more opulent events....
...Mr Campbell is chief executive and co-founder, and Mr Singh a fellow at the Center for a New American Security...
...Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister, is expected to resist pressure in Germany while trying not to appear uncooperative....
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