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King of Fairyland Has No Queen 

ReutersBy Chaitanya KalbagApril 30, 202512 Comments

Chaitanya Kalbag, Reuters NZPA — Thimphu, Bhutan Tucked away in the eastern Himalayas lives the ruler of a fairyland little kingdom who must be one of the world’s most eligible bachelors because he is the world’s youngest reigning monarch.  The personal life of the Druk Gyalpo (precious ruler of the dragon people) is not gossiped…

The Scindias -The Battle Royal

30th Apr 1982, India Today, ReportageBy Chaitanya KalbagJuly 25, 20244 Comments

It began as a small tiff, as all battles do. The two antagonists identities lent it a delicious irony: Vijaya Raje Scindia, the ex-Rajmata of Gwalior, and her only son, ex-Maharaja Madhavrao. Over the years, this essentially political fight spilt out of the Gwalior palace into national attention. Today, it includes all the ingredients of…

Scindias : Friend in Need

India Today, 15th May 1982By Chaitanya KalbagJuly 16, 20245 Comments

The Rashtriya Swyamsewak Sangh (RSS) is everybody’s favourite bugbear. So perhaps it was inevitable that it would be accused of having a hand in the feud between Mrs Gandhi and her rebellious daughter-in­ law Maneka. But though the charges can never really be substantiated, there is a connection which leads credence to the charge-the friendship…

An Heir Splitting Legacy

15th Aug 1982, India Today, ReportageBy Chaitanya KalbagJuly 3, 20244 Comments

The story is as complicated as the whorls on a fingerprint, a ready-made screen-play bursting with grandeur, feudalism, pretension, and the tattered remnants of pomp and panoply. The theatre of this absurd epic, Raj Darbhanga in Bihar, has been reduced today to a threadbare relic of the fiefdom’s old glory. Darbhanga was once India’s largest…

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