Leg-spinner Cameron White will arrive in India on Monday but will have little time to prepare, leaving Australia with a tough selection choice.
Reports on the number of homes with televisions are impressive, but 75% of India's sets are black and white and are capable of carrying only 14 channels.
India were 166-6 at tea, 252 ahead, but Australia were worried by the slow rate and turned to Cameron White and Mike Hussey and India built a 382-run lead.
President Clinton will visit India and Bangladesh in mid-March, but the White House has yet to make a final decision on Pakistan, which had originally been on the itinerary before October's coup.
The Song of India serves modern Indian in a traditional black-and-white bungalow.
Mike Hussey was run-out for 90 and Cameron White hit a Test-best 46, but India look set to protect a 1-0 series lead at 0-0 in the second innings.
For it was exactly 60 years ago, in a ceremony not unlike this, that an American president welcomed to the White House the first prime minister of an independent India.
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The Taj Mahal in India has been called a poem in stone, a moon-white dream, a tear on the face of humanity.
But she performed one small, bold act of independence: when Pope John Paul II left her the white limousine that he had used on his visit to India, she almost immediately raffled it to raise funds.
That such attitudes creep even into officialdom is illustrated by the ease with which white nannies obtain visas whilst doctors and other professionals from countries like India are treated with suspicion.
At the station a plaque commemorates the day in 1893 when the founder of modern day India, Mohandas Gandhi, was thrown off a train for travelling in the 'white-only' first class compartment.
Christie's will also feature striking Mughal jewelry from India, including a double-faced emerald, diamond and enamel turban ornament, which is white and green on one side and red and green on the reverse (350, 000 francs-550, 000 francs).
With a distinctive white beard, for years he was regularly seen at Pakistan's Wagah border crossing with India holding a Pakistani flag and wearing colour-co-ordinated clothing as the famous ceremony was played out each day.
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