Beyond Biryani

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Book</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hyderabad-the city of nawabs the Charminar and biryani? Or a city plugged into the neural network of global technology? Hyderabad is both of those cities all at once and there is much more to it than meets the eye.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beyond Biryani</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> maps the journey from what was at best a proto-colonial city under a quasi-Mughal princely state till the 1940s to the modern and vibrant metropolis that Hyderabad is today. In the pages of this book we see the beginnings of that transformation: the Britishers who steered the city in the direction of developing a scientific temper and the nawabs who championed the cause. And we discover the workings and patterns of the change: from the Chloroform Commissions to Ronald Ross's discovery of malaria; from the setting up of Osmania University India's first vernacular university to the newly independent India pushing for industrial laboratories scientific research and strategic forays into nuclear fuel and missiles. Finally we discover how in the last thirty years Hyderabad has taken giant leaps towards becoming a truly globalised city.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An alternative history of the city of Hyderabad </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beyond Biryani</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a must-read for anyone interested in how a city can catapult towards modernity while staying rooted in its cultural heritage.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Author</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>DINESH C. SHARMA is an award-winning journalist and author with nearly forty years of experience of reporting on issues related to science technology innovation medicine and the environment for national and international media outlets. Among the books authored by him are </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT Revolution and Indian Innovation Not Jugaad: 100 Ideas That Transformed India.</em></p>