Text and Photographs: Nikhil Lakshman
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Awaiting the President at the forecourt of the Great Hall of the People: Foreign Secretary Lalit Mansingh, former MP Murli
Deora (chief patron of the India China Chamber of Commerce), Sushil Kumar Shinde, Somnath Chatterjee, Ramachandra Pillai
and Sushma Swaraj (all MPs), Union Minister Manohar Joshi, Chandrika Narayanan Mohan, the President's only grandchild, and
his daughters, Amrita and Chitra (an IFS officer who has just been named India's ambassador to Sweden).
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