A dazzling collection that captures the essence of Hyderabad offering glimpses of the various strands that go into its making fact and legend old-world quaintness and the highest hi-tech eccentricity and intrigue the calm of genteelness and the fury of rebellion. Hyderabad is a city once ruled by the worlds richest man who invested most lavishly in his state most shabbily in his wardrobe it holds stories of a courtesan who fought wars counselled prime ministers sang her own verse and enthralled