With all the diplomatic aveneues shut for them, the Bolsheviks decided to sell the Czarist jewels they had appropriated during the revolution. To sell the jewels and fund the trade delegation, the jewels first had to be smuggled into America.

If high-rises are evidence of change, then Delhi has transformed from being a clutch of villages surrounding the palaces of Sultans and the Red Fort of Shahjahan to a monstrous city of skyscrapers. The mammoth concrete buildings that dot the landscape are built on