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a bar, desk, half bedroom, half sitting room. Made a few calls to Erik da Costa, Editor, Eastern Statesman, who said he would come to see me at 5.30 o'clock. Then called Frances Adams at Amer. Embassy, who later called back to invite me to their house for an hour to see new work by a Bombay artist named Hussein. Also called Ambassador U Kyin at Burmese Embassy who asked me to come to see him at noon. I breakfasted, window shopped, & took a cab over. He told me he had already called Nehru's secretary about an appointment for me. As for facilitating my trip to Karachi - he was afraid he might have to disappoint me. He called later in the day to say he had no good news as yet - would contact me tomorrow.

Came back for lunch at the hotel. The manager is Polish & friendly & polite. Named Corneris



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He called a Tonga for me (Horse & buggy) when I told him I wanted to sightsee in this fashion. So, from 2.30 till 5.30 I had a wonderful tour of Old & New Delhi. The Red Fort, 300 years old, majestic. Fatehpuri Mosque, the Jama Masjid & Hang Khas, the views, etc. The Indian architecture is impressively beautiful. In New Delhi, the govt. buildings, the Parliament, the Embassies & their grounds, the spacious & beautiful parks & avenues were a surprise to me. At night, the fountains and buildings are lovely - illuminated with diffused colors. And everywhere, of course, the people are more fascinating than anything else. To see the lovely children in their colorful costumes, with wonderful eyes shadowed with 'Kohl' - the women and men, beautiful & picturesque types, all of them, young and old. Most of them are fairly tall & slender with fine dignified features. The male laborers wearing the dhoti's - tied