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...Up for grabs will be a Raja Ravi Varma masterpiece, worth an estimated $1.7m-$2.6m, and a smouldering oil painting by V S Gaitonde, who set a world record for modern Indian art when his 1995, untitled painting...
...Back in Lucknow for dinner in the Kaiserbagh Palace with Mohammad Amir Mohammad Khan, son of the last Raja of Mahmudabad....
...After becoming the raja’s fifth wife, she spotted a royal elephant sporting an unusual crescent-shaped emerald: her husband promised the jewel to her if she learnt Urdu....
...White-bearded, faintly quizzical, he seems — despite a montage of himself as Charles I, an Elizabethan courtier and a raja — actually more ordinary than his fevered interlocutrix....
...According to the Business Standard: “The government has inducted V Narayanasamy, minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office, as a member in the EGoM (Empowered Group of Ministers)....
...“There has been considerable improvement in social welfare in the last five years,” said V. Krishnananth, a Chennai-based author on Indian politics....
...Having pushed up military spending in recent years to defeat the Tigers, Rajapaksa’s government is heavily in the red and hoping foreign largesse will speed its recovery....
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