It took Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Barry of the New York Times to put at rest last week the 40-year-old mystery of “Begum Wilayat Mahal” of Oudh, her children, “Princess” Sakina and “Prince” Ali Reza, alias, Cyrus. As early as 1975, Anjum Qadar, whose descent from the Oudh “royals” is established, had rubbished Wilayat Mahal’s claims. She visited the New …
What if one day you realise that the fables you had heard of ‘humble royals’ living in downtrodden ‘hunting lodge’ doubled up as palace in middle of Delhi were imposters? Well, if this New York Times article is to be believed, Indira Gandhi got played by a mentally ill woman because she didn’t want to upset the Shia Muslims in …
