![]() My younger sister who is a resident of Hyderabad (she has been so for about forty or so years of the last fifty years)in 2016 invited all her siblings for a re-union on the fiftieth year of shifting to Hyderabad.ĭuring our high school and college days the Women’s College was out of bounds for males except occasionally and on quite a few occasions when the college was hosting Inter Collegiate Debates we could enter he college and wander about a bit. ![]() Two of my sisters were graduate students at the college. At that time or as it is even today The Residency is a college Osmania University College for Women. Kirkpatrick and Khair-un-Nisa the niece of Hyderabad’s Prime Minister. ![]() The book was set in the British Residency at Hyderabad called Koti about a couple of miles or so from King Koti the residence of the Nizams, narrates the love story and marriage of the British Resident James A. I cannot correctly recall whether it was an article in some magazine or I laid my hands on a copy of William Dalrymple’s book the “White Mughal” and I was transported back in time to the sixties. It was there my siblings and me had our middle and high school education and also finished our college degree (my eldest sister had already finished school before we moved to Hyderabad. ![]() Born in Calcutta that is now Kolkata, my father who was a Central Revenue Officer got transferred to Hyderabad. I first consciously came across the name about fifteen or so years ago. ![]()
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