Express News Service
HYDERABAD: Right by the very busy Mumbai Highway (NH-65), stands a small, beautiful and secluded structure at Ameerpet. Nearly a 100 years old, the structure is a private cemetery of an extremely illustrious Hyderabad family, and though it is well-maintained, both the structure and the stories of those buried there are largely unknown.
Among the persons buried here are four Padma awardees, as well as the man who was entrusted with the construction of Begumpet Airport.
The structure was completed in 1926 by Dr Edith Boardman, an Englishwoman, as a resting place for her husband Syed Hossain Bilgrami an educationist and scholar who also worked in multiple roles under the Nizam. His great grandson Raza Bilgrami, 69, says when Bilgrami was in England, he was suffering from some health issues.