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Shyam Benegal — the boy from Alwal who put Hyderabad on national movie map

“Shyam is an Alwal boy. His first films were made in Hyderabad and its surrounding villages,” said filmmaker B. Narsing Rao when informed about the passing away of Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner Shyam Benegal. Not just shooting the films in and around Hyderabad, Shyam Benegal even used the poems of Makhdoom Mohiuddin for his movie including ‘’Phir chidi raat phoolon …

India Hyderabad Rao Village Nizam College Shyam Shyam Benegal

4 weeks, 1 day ago

A peep into the past that brings alive the spirit of Hyderabad

Deccan Chronicle

The Kohinoors Published by Media Plus Foundation Author: Syed Khaled Shahbaaz Pages: 236 Price: Rs 2,000 It is very rare for a youngster, who is enjoying the best possible career in the United States after an equally lucrative stint in the Middle East, to leave them all and head home lock, stock and barrel to pursue a dream that had …

Hyderabad Book This Book Khaled Shahbaaz

Priyank Kharge slams Yogi Adityanath for raking up father's family tragedy

India Today

Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge shot back at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for raking up his father Mallikarjun Kharge's childhood tragedy, saying the Congress chief never exploited it for political gains. In a sharply worded rebuttal, Priyank said it was the Hyderabad Nizam's Razakars who burned down his father's house in 1948 and not the entire Muslim community. 'TRY …

Karnataka Hyderabad Congress Muslim Adityanath Yogi Adityanath Kharge

1 month, 1 week ago

Nizams fighting legal battles to stake claim of ‘legitimate’ property share

Hindustan Times

It has been exactly three centuries since the Asaf Jahi dynasty of the Nizams, who ruled the princely state of Hyderabad, was established and the descendants of the Nizams are still fighting pitched legal battles to stake claim of their “legitimate” share in the properties that are now worth thousands of crores of rupees. While the legal battle is primarily …

India Hyderabad Properties Legal Indian Share Dynasty

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Jal Jangal Jameen: Why these three words can’t be separated from India’s tribes — and an early 20th-century tribal hero

Hindustan Times

Recently, in a roadshow in Jharkhand as part of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi invoked the slogan of jal, jangal, jameen when addressing people. Not many of us know that the words, is a slogan coined by the Gond tribal hero Komaram Bheem in the early 20th century. Statue of Komaram Bheem at Tank Bund Road, …

India Indian British Schedule Forest Tribals Slogan

1 year, 6 months ago

Meet Mir Osman Ali Khan, India’s First Billionaire And The Last King Of Hyderabad

News 18

When discussing the wealthiest individuals in India, prominent names such as the Tatas, the Birlas, the Ambanis, or the Adanis often come to mind. However, it is worth noting that many may not be aware of Mir Osman Ali Khan, who was actually the richest person in India. Indeed, Mir Osman Ali Khan, the final Nizam of Hyderabad, earned recognition …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Meet Azmat Jah: Hyderabad’s new Nizam who worked with Steven Spielberg

Live Mint

Following the passing of his father Prince Mukarram Jah, the eighth and last formal Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Muhammad Azmat Ali Khan, popularly known as Azmat Jah, will formally succeed as the Nizam of Hyderabad, Hindustan Times reported while citing persons familiar with the situation. Mukarram Jah, who passed away in the Turkish capital of Istanbul last week and was …

India Nizam Mukarram Jah Azmat Jah Hyderabad

1 year, 11 months ago

Hyderabad bids emotional farewell to Mukarram Jah

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Thousands gathered to bid adieu to the last titular Nizam VIII, Mukarram Jah Bahadur, at Asaf Jahi ancestral graveyard on the Macca Masjid premises. The last titular Nizam’s grave was adjacent to the grave of his father, Mir Himayat Ali Khan. Home minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali, scores of TRS leaders, AIMIM MLAs Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri, Jaffer Hussain Meraj, …

Hyderabad Nizam Mukarram Jah Jah

1 year, 11 months ago

Photographer and filmmaker son Azmet will succeed Mukarram Jah

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Prince Azmet Jah, a photographer and filmmaker who has worked with Hollywood directors such as Steven Spielberg and Richard Attenborough, will take over as Mukarram Jah's successor Son of Mukarram Jah and Esra Jah, Azmet Jah was born in London on July 23, 1960. According to the wishes of Mukarram Jah, Prince Azmet Jah will succeed Mukarram Jah, according …

Son Prince Nizam Mukarram Successor Ruler Mukarram Jah

1 year, 11 months ago

Mukarram Jah to be buried at Macca Masjid

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The last rites of the titular Nizam VIII Mukarram Jah Bahadur will take place with state honours after the Asr prayers, around 5.30 pm on Wednesday, at the ancestral graveyard of the Asaf Jah family in the historic Macca Masjid. The bathing of the body will be done at Chowmahalla palace, in spite of ‘Shahi Musal Khana’ at Macca …

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Shyam Benegal — the boy from Alwal who put Hyderabad on national movie map

A peep into the past that brings alive the spirit of Hyderabad

Priyank Kharge slams Yogi Adityanath for raking up father's family tragedy

Nizams fighting legal battles to stake claim of ‘legitimate’ property share

Jal Jangal Jameen: Why these three words can’t be separated from India’s tribes — and an early 20th-century tribal hero

Meet Mir Osman Ali Khan, India’s First Billionaire And The Last King Of Hyderabad

Meet Azmat Jah: Hyderabad’s new Nizam who worked with Steven Spielberg

Hyderabad bids emotional farewell to Mukarram Jah

Photographer and filmmaker son Azmet will succeed Mukarram Jah

Mukarram Jah to be buried at Macca Masjid