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Final take

US amabassador's Icelandic myth, Coke's star fizz and Pavan Verma's exit from Delhi...

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It’ll soon be time to say welcome to some Capital guests—the new Americanambassador, Robert Blackwill and his wife. We’re told he’d bemarrying the Dutch lady just before starting on the Indian assignment. Unlike the Page 3favourite Jacqueline Lundquist, the new lady of Roosevelt House issupposed to be a serious person who has just wrapped up a thesis on Icelandic myths...Nowto another serious pursuit. B.C. Sanyal may have turned 100 but stillfollows the regimen of going for a walk to Humayun’s Tomb every morning, all alonewith just his walking stick for company...Talking of company, the two light-eyed megastarsof Bollywood, Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan, are soongoing to come together, not for a movie but for a Coke ad...Meanwhile,

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Bombay is stillgrieving the death of Busybee. Innumerable condolence meetings are still being held in Behram Contractor’s memory...Lastly a fond farewell. Delhi’s glitterati will miss Pavan Verma who is off to Cyprus as the new ambassador...

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