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    Pandemic outside, paradise inside: How India's super-rich are dealing with COVID-19

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    Amid work from home, their mega closets gather dust as loungewear becomes the new suits. Understandably, those periodic shopping trips overseas are off bounds. The summer skiing trips to the Swiss Alps have been cancelled. The coronavirus has been truly democratic in its rage, not sparing even the rarefied and gilded world of India’s super-rich.

    The rich-club soiree has quietened for months now. Cocktails and dinners have lost their buzz. The five-star banquets — weekend fixtures where India’s swish lot arrived in their Mercedes and hobnobbed in their Burberrys — lie deserted.Amid work from home, their mega closets gather dust as loungewear becomes the new suits. Understandably, those periodic shopping trips overseas are off bounds. The summer skiing trips to the Swiss Alps have been
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