Iran and India have had relations for millennia and share many cultural affinities.
This is best exemplified by Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Old Hyderabad was modeled on the Iranian city of Isfahan, especially the magnificent Charminar, which was the gate to the old city.
Iran and India have had relations for millennia and share many cultural affinities.
This is best exemplified by Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Old Hyderabad was modeled on the Iranian city of Isfahan, especially the magnificent Charminar, which was the gate to the old city.
An unusual ode to Qutb Shahi tombs from a British poetess who never visited Golconda
By News Desk| Updated: 19th January 2021 7:13 pm IST Photo: Wikipedia.org
Salma Ahmed Farooqui
On a pleasant winter morning in early December last year, I was invited to visit the Qutb Shahi Tombs by the authorities of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to see the ongoing restoration process at the site in the company of friends and likeminded persons. It was a special occasion for me for it was the first time I could see the
Murda Darwaza (Door for the dead) that connected the Golconda fort and the Qutb Shahi necropolis after the removal of several layers of mounds of earth. This arched doorway, although not yet opened, is supposed to have been the channel to carry the dead bodies of the royalty and their close associates from their imperial chambers in the fort for the customary funeral bath and burial at the tombs complex.
Waqf ruling stalls key heritage project
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Interpretation centre was being built inside Qutb Shahi Tombs complex
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The Qutb Shahi Tombs complex is one of the most visited landmarks in Hyderabad. | Photo Credit:
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Interpretation centre was being built inside Qutb Shahi Tombs complex
Work on the Interpretation Centre of the Quli Qutb Heritage Park has come to a grinding halt following a ruling by the Telangana State Waqf Tribunal. The tribunal gave a temporary injunction on January 8, restraining officials from ‘excavation, transportation of the soil, making/raising/developing any construction in the name of interpretation centre or any other structures in Deccan Park and Aqua Park’.
Restoring the original character of Qutb Shahi tombs’ landscape
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Entry to the complex will now be through what was formerly the Deccan Park
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Adults play cricket in front of a tomb even before work on the stone pavement is completed. | Photo Credit:
Serish Nanisetti
Entry to the complex will now be through what was formerly the Deccan Park
Early 19th century paintings and photographs of Qutb Shahi Tombs in Hyderabad show the monuments in open splendour surrounded by gardens. But visitors to the heritage complex in the latter part of the 20th and 21st century saw a different precinct reinforced concrete fountains, walls, monuments with connecting platforms, iron railings on platforms, a Japanese garden with a bridge over a water channel and an asphalt road connecting it all.