As a normally bubbly awardee confided in hushed tones last week while looking up at the huge chandelier hanging from the 108-feet-high dome of Rashtrapati Bhavan lighting up the Durbar Hall, "It is impossible not to be awed by this room and the occasion!" The magnificence of the marble-columned, soaring central chamber that once held the thrones of the Viceroy and Vicereine is undeniable.