FAR removed from its gleaming software parks and ambitious companies, a brooding necropolis on Hyderabad’s periphery is a reminder of a different kind of power and glory in an era long gone by.
Rulers of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, who once took the Golconda Sultanate to great heights of globalized prosperity, chose this peaceful corner of their tumult-riven and fractious empire to be laid to rest in tombs which were immersed in nature.
There were hundreds of acres of gardens and thousands of fruit trees to soothe them in death. An assured source of water for this greenery. . .
