Which is why the release of Dinner Décor – a How-To Guide for Fabulous Centrepieces by Amita Sathe Bambawale, the wife of India’s newly appointed ambassador to Pakistan, Gautam Bambawale, is so timely. [...] every page is an ode to the ingenuity that so many diplomatic wives draw on, as part of their “job” – an unpaid and unheralded one, it may be noted.