From the Nizams’s desk

(A popular theory suggests that after founding the city, Quli Qutb Shah fell in love with and married a local Banjara girl known as Bhagmathi or Bhagyavathi naming the city, Bhagyanagaram. Upon her conversion to Islam, she changed her name to Hyder Mahal and thus the city was named Hyderabad)

(A peep from the past)

(Golconda Fort ,a very badly maintained fort, looks infinitely better at night, when well lit during the highly uninspiring Light and Sound show)

(View inside the Charminar)

(The current Nizam )

(With the Royal Family,having Thai food at ‘On the Waterfront’)

(The princess of Hyderabad off for her schooling…)

…………in the art of throwing tantrums*

* in a toy shop,throw yourself down in between the narrow aisles, and bawl your head, while flinging your limbs)