The secretary of state finally gets a platter of her own at ITC Maurya’s Bukhara restaurant in New Delhi. The Hillary Platter–urgh malai kabab, seekh kabab, paneer tikka, tandoori aloo, sikandari raan, dal bukhara, tandoori jinga, mixed raita, naan, rasmalai and kulfi–joins the Presidential Platter and the Chelsea Platter.
At the town hall meeting at the University of Delhi, Clinton was asked a very good question: “Did you ever, ever feel that because you’re a woman, you’ve been denied the highest and the most prestigious post in the United States?” Unfortunately–and diplomatically–she proceeded not to answer it.
Sounds like The Times of India wanted Clinton to show more flesh: “The 61-year-old US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has returned to her conservative Illinois roots with her trademark colourful pantsuits that she is sporting in India—a far cry from the show of cleavage in the US Senate in July 2007 where her black top with a low neckline created a virtual flutter.” That’s right, a flutter!
“People watching a Bollywood movie in some other part of Asia think everybody in India is beautiful and they have dramatic lives and happy endings. And if you were to watch American TV and our movies you’d think that we don’t wear clothes and we spend all our time fighting with each other,” Clinton insisted. Is she trying to say that it’s not true and kill the film and tourism industries during a recession!