The Indian touches in this pleasant room are subtle and the setting is serene.
But Ms. Nair does bring some welcome (and authentically 19th-century) Indian touches to the story.
The nondenominational service had American Indian touches and also included a friend reading a Portuguese poem and Mr. Robinson's oldest son, Lawrence, reading a French poem.
The Franco-Spanish designer Isabelle Miaja is the creative mind behind the 302-room property, with contemporary design infused with Indian touches like the metal elephant adorning the North Indian restaurant Jyran.
At the end of it Mr. Sharma, in the traditional Indian way, touched Mr. Lee's feet.
Add in some Indian metropolitan touches -- consumerism, a passion for acronyms -- and the reader has a taste of the literary brew that is "Bunker 13".
But it has also detained hundreds of its citizens since Dec. 13, when a suicide attack on the Indian Parliament touched off the current crisis, and it has called on India to engage in dialogue.
