There it stands ablaze, like a slab of fire, with its parade of white flagstaffs gleaming in the street light, and the humped black limousines patient at the door.

Ultimately the money gets to the government.

We've objected to that and we've been told we will be exempted from that tax.

A scent of jasmine and a rasp of sand.

[New Delhi] is trying to show that greatness can be voted into office, if applied for in triplicate, through the proper channels.

With the situation deteriorating over recent weeks, our main objective is to save lives.

There is a lull to the very air of the place, the creaking of the tall teak forests, the lapping of the canals, the gentle swaying of the little kingfishers who sit like neat blue idols on almost every telegraph wire.

When at last you cross the road to the United Nations, it is like traversing some unmarked but crucial frontier.

Seduction but in a slightly medicinal way.