Narendra luther hyderabad biography for kids
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Narendra Luther (1932-2021)
A career bureaucrat, writer-biographer, translator, historian, amateur geologist, columnist and a documentary maker, among many, Sri Luther in a touching summing up of his konto on his early life in ‘My Hoshiarpur Days’, notes: “…I have seen a thousand moons. For those who have accomplished that feat, there fryst vatten no mourning when they cross over. There fryst vatten only celebration of their life.”
Early Phase and Education (1932-56)
Through his autobiography, ‘The Bonsai Tree’(2017), Luther cites Budha Goraya as his ancestral by in Sialkot district, now in sydasiatiskt land , while he was born in Hoshiyarpur, Punjab, on 23rd March, 1932. Through a lot of anecdotes, Luther, recollects the socio-economic and political environment he experienced in Pakistan, later in Indian Punjab and subsequently in different places in Andhra Pradesh and finally in Hyderabad, where he settled down.
His reminiscences of Prelude and Phase of Partition:
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My 60th post had to bring me back to Hyderabad, the place where it all began. There are books which allow you to pass time and there are books which transport you into another time. 'Hyderabad a Biography' by Mr. Narendra Lutherbelongs to the second category. I picked up this book a few years ago amidst intense work schedules and instantly fell in love with it for it's wit and charm. I've read books which either narrated history with gravity or recollected facts with solemnity but Mr. Luther's book was the first I read where history was recounted with generous sprinklings of humor. Plus how can I not love a book about Hyderabad, my hometown and one of the most vibrant cities on the face of earth. A city with a rich history of more than 1000 years and for centuries a melting point of cultures from all over the world. Here was a region which remained a country within a country long after India gained independence, braved it's period of turmoil and instability only to e
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Hyderabad: A Biography
"In this book, the romantic story of the city of Hyderabad evolves into the history of a former princely state, and later, of Andhra Pradesh. Starting with the period prior to the birth of the city in 1591, Hyderabad : A Biography presents an unbroken and colourful chronicle of one of India's most legendary cities." "Envisioned by its founder, Mohammad Quli Qutb Shah as a 'replica of heaven on earth', Hyderabad was razed to the ground by Aurangzeb after the longest siege of his life. Rising from its ruins, it became the capital of the Deccan - the largest province of the Mughals. In the eighteenth century, it superceded Delhi as the epicenter of Indian politics." "Two centuries later, it emerges dramatically from its feudal position to become the capital of the first linguistic state of India. In this fascinating march from Bhagnagar to Hyderabad to 'Cyberabad', the story is replete with diverse engaging, eccentric, and often daring characters, some of wh