The power of loyalty

The Indian sub-continent has had several capital cities of successive kingdoms and empires, but Delhi occupies a special place. Mohammed bin Tughlak tried to get away to Daulatabad but was drawn back and even the British had to move inland from Calcutta and build a whole new capital. Indraprastha /Dilli/Delhi/New Delhi is akin to Rome, Paris, London, Moscow, Beijing and Washington, DC — all capital cities that are a world to themselves and are generally viewed by the people they govern as centres of intrigue, deception, corruption and, oddly, even wit and wisdom.