Ghosts, Goblins, Gateways Of Golconda Fort In Hyderabad
The entrance and exit routes of the Golconda fort changed as many times its rulers. A centuries-old buried path, a walled up gateway and a secret passageway; these might be…
The entrance and exit routes of the Golconda fort changed as many times its rulers. A centuries-old buried path, a walled up gateway and a secret passageway; these might be…
In the early hours of 13 September 1948, a shrill clanging of the telephone awakened Mir Laiq Ali, Prime Minister of Hyderabad State. General El-Edroos, Commander-in-Chief of Hyderabad’s army, had…
The massive fortune of India’s richest royal family Hyderabadi Nizams who are strongest in finances, revenue and gold and ornaments, just dissipated because of indifference and ineptitude. Wearing a yellow…
The strong smell of eucalyptus envelopes you even before you reach Karkhana Zinda Tilismath, where the iconic ‘har marz ki dawa’, or cure-all, has been made since 1920. It is…
The Nizami look ‘Moazzam Jahi Market’ is not just a fruit market of recent times, as it’s commonly referred to, but is an identity of the city of Nawabs. The…
Along with political experts, pundits and most of the Telugu people and the BJP’s Telangana unit has objected to the Cabinet’s clearance for the new Secretariat building design on the…
Structural health of the heritage structure remains questionable for decades now. An existential dilemma has been plaguing the Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad for long, with the structural health of…
The contradictory statements from the Telangana chief minister’s office and the TRS leaders over the demolition of two mosques and a temple within the premises of old secretariat complex have…
Bookshops that used to sell Urdu fiction and poetry in Old city’s Gulzar Houz area in Hyderabad have given way to garment shops and eateries, owners say business has taken…
The demolition of Telangana secretariat buildings had been taken up suddenly and swiftly, till the high court stalled the works on technical grounds. But the entire demolition exercise has been…