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Uma Magal
Uma Magals’ film Other Kohinoors highlights the need to preserve the pre-historic rocks of Hyderabad that define the Deccan Plateau’s landscape Ee nallani raalalo, ye kannulu dhaageno, Ee bandala maatuna, ye gundelu mrogeno… (In these black stones, whose eyes are hiding, on these slabs, whose heart is ringing…) are lines incorporated into the short film
Other Kohinoors – The Rocks of Hyderabad. The lyrics from a soulful song rendered by Ghantasala for the 1964 Telugu film
Amara Silpi Jakkanna, resonates in the pleas of rock activists who have been on a mission to protect the rock treasure of Hyderabad.
Former bureaucrat, Hyderabad biographer Narendra Luther passes away
By IANS| Published: 19th January 2021 9:29 pm IST
Hyderabad, Jan 19 : Former civil servant, historian and author Narendra Luther passed away here on Tuesday. He was 89.
Luther, who was also a poet, was ailing for some time. He is survived by wife, a son and a daughter.
One of the first officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), he was considered to be an authority on Hyderabad’s history and culture and a symbol of the city’s “Ganga Jamuni tehzeeb”.
He was also engaged in conservation activities playing a key role in the Society to Save Rocks.