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As a normally bubbly awardee confided in hushed tones last week while looking up at the huge chandelier hanging from the 108-feet-high dome of Rashtrapati Bhavan lighting up the Durbar Hall, "It is impossible not to be awed by this room and the occasion!" The magnificence of the marble-columned, soaring central chamber that once held the thrones of the Viceroy and Vicereine is undeniable. ....