Netherfield Ball – French Ambassador’s Cocktail Reception, Nyaya Marg City Parties by The Delhi Walla - July 25, 2015July 25, 20151 The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] What they all are always interested in is the course of the Balkan war. Yet, these diplomats do need little diversions now and then to indulge in non-confrontational dialogues with members of the peacetime society. One evening French ambassador, François Richier, hosted a cocktail reception at his residence on Nyaya Marg. The pretext was the launch of Ghosts of Calcutta, a novel by Sébastien Ortiz, the Consul General of France in Kolkata, West Bengal. The guests were picked from the highest levels of Delhi’s social circle. Rajkumari Anita Singh of the royal house of Kapurthala looked resplendent in her golden sari and elaborately coiffed hair. Her family’s kingdom is history but Ms Singh continues