Narendra luther hyderabad biography definition
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Legends and Anecdotes of Hyderabad
The Tables Turned
By Narendra Luther
B.P.R. Vithal, an I.A.S officer who retired as principal secretary of the Finance Department of the Government of Andhra Pradesh and then served as a member of the 10th Finance kommission was, at the time of Police Action, a young man of 21, studying at Madras (now Chennai).
Arbitrary Removal
His father, Ram Narsu was an assistant professor in the Nizam College. He was an outspoken non-conformist and did not hesitate to utilize his lecture on British history to underline the justification of the aspiration for freedom amongst Indians. The principal, an Englishman called Turner, did not like him and terminated his service one day on the plea that post had ceased to exist.
Narsus wife was a good veena player and that had brought her close to Laila, wife of Hasan Latif, a chief engineer in the Hyderabad State. He was and father of Air Chief Marshall I.H. Latif, who became the ledare of personal of the Indian
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Luther, Narendra –
(Narindar Ludhar, Narindar Luthar)
PERSONAL:
Born Hobbies and other interests: Geology.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Hyderabad, India.
CAREER:
Writer, historian, columnist, translator, documentary maker, biographer, and political leader. Indian Administrative Service (IAS), officer, —. Andhra Pradesh, India, chief secretary, chairman of tourism development corporation; Hyderabad, India, municipal commissioner. Translator of works in Urdu.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Golden Aster Award (two-time recipient), IX International Heritage Film Festival, Osaka, Japan,
WRITINGS:
Alif Tahasha, Zindah Dilan-i Haidarabad (Hyderabad, India),
Prince, Poet, Lover, Builder, Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, the Founder of Hyderabad, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India (New Delhi, India),
Hyderabad: Memoirs of a City, Orient Longman (Hyderabad, India),
The Nizam Who Wasn't: A Souvenir of Bella Vista, Creative Point (Hyderabad, India)
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Bridging two cultures
NARENDRA LUTHER
THE twilight generation of Hyderabadis and its diaspora scattered in five continents, suffers from an acute nostalgia for the twilight period of the city of their origin. One has only to browse the Charminar Connection website to appreciate the depth of their feeling and pride in what they call the Ganga-Jamni composite culture of Hyderabad.
The charm of the old-world ambience was still lingering when I arrived in the city a decade after the integration of the old state of Hyderabad with India in
The origin of this flavour can be traced back to over four centuries. In , the fifth Qutb Shahi Sultan of Golconda, Mohammad Quli (r) built a city as ‘a replica of heaven’. He named it Bhagnagar, after his beloved Bhagmati. In , the German architect Jan Pieper quoted chapter and verse to argue that the city was indeed an architectural metaphor for the Quranic heaven.
Hyderabad is to cities what Taj Mahal is to buildings – a monument to lov