IFS Brats' hostel: A junior United Nations Assembly
In that long ago era before social media and the worldwide web, the means to make and maintain new connections were limited to the physical plane. Like many other children of Indian diplomats of yore, one such space was the External Affairs Hostel in New Delhi. As lascivious as the name may sound, it was actually a convivial Habib Rehman-designed enclave comprising three buildings and a vast lawn, where incoming and outgoing Foreign Service families lodged.Now being redeveloped into a gigantic …

