New Delhi, June 4 :    New Delhi, June 4:  Where is the beauteous Devyani Rana, love for whom is said to have driven Dipendra to regicide and suicide? She is with the Scindias, but where: Delhi, London or Gwalior? Devyani flew out of Kathmandu on Saturday and reached the Indian capital in the afternoon. She was accompanied by at least one person, her elder sister. The Scindias are incommunicado in this hour of private grief. On her flight to Delhi, Devyani was escorted by her elder sister who is married into the Khemka family based in Chennai. The Khemkas ran the NEPC group of businesses that are now in troubled times. Delhi is where she would have found a place among her own people, but she could have also flown to London, where her maternal uncle, Madhavrao Scindia, is now camping. Devyani is known to be close to, and fond of, Madhavrao. Her mother Usharaje is his elder sister. As a student in Delhi's Lady Shri Ram College some four years ago, Devyani spent time in both the hostel and at Scindia House. Now, when her world is collapsing, it is only natural that she will seek and get refuge with her own people. In college, a lecturer at LSR recalls, Devyani kept a low profile and rarely spoke of her lineage and connections. She was a student of political science though she is currently registered in Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, for a Ph.D in sharing water resources. Incidentally, her father, Pashupati Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana, is a former minister for water resources. Water resources is a crucial portfolio in the Nepal Cabinet because it often determines the kingdom's ties with India. In Delhi, Devyani also discussed politics with Madhavrao when he could spare the time. 'What do you think defines the new political centre in the Indian polity? Is it possible to create a new political alignment by picking up blocks from existing political parties! Could such a centrist political formation (be) built around U? Do U have the killing instinct so badly needed to be Prime Minister of India?' (sic), a Devyani Rana asked Madhavrao Scindia in a 1996 Internet chat. It is not known whether the questioner was indeed the Congress leader's niece but the coincidence is striking. Scindia could not complete the chat due to technical problems and his answer is not listed. Scindia House and the security and comfort it guarantees her is, therefore, likely to be Devyani Rana's most favoured refuge now. The Scindias of Jai Vilas Palace, Gwalior, have a long and thick relationship with both the Kathmandu royals of Narayan Hity Palace and the Ranas of Nepal. Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia was of Rana lineage but settled in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, before she married Jiwajirao Scindia. Usharaje, her second daughter and Devyani's mother, married into a branch of the Rana family. The late Queen Aishwarya herself was from another branch of the Rana family. The two branches were not on happy terms - since the time of Juddha Shamsher J.B. Rana and Chandra Shamsher J.B. Rana - and Dipendra's mother is said to have objected to her son's liaison for that reason. The inaccessibility of Jai Vilas (as also Usha Kiran palace) also makes Gwalior a possible refuge for Devyani right now. Among other probable hosts of Devyani in India are Karan Singh, scion of the Jammu and Kashmir royals, Gaj Singh of the Jodhpur royal family and the Mahindras, all of whom have close ties with the Ranas through marriage.