India, Aug. 19 -- "We wonder if there are any descendants of the Lord Rama in Ayodhya," his Lordship smiles from the Bench of the Supreme Court currently adjudicating the seemingly insolvable riddle of who owns the birthplace of the god.
And lo and behold, the answer came not from Ayodhya but from the bloodlines of the princelings of the former state of Jaipur. I am, quoth of the young woman who would be a princess if Indira Gandhi had not consigned to the dustbin of history all these royal houses - seven hundred or so of them in divided India, some large such as Kashmir and Hyderabad, and others the size of a postage stamp. Nonetheless, the young lady has had her moment of media fame. It does not matter that her late grandfather was an ad...