Serish Nanisetti

Hyderabad

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A museum in search of a forever home in Telangana

3 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Serish Nanisetti

Somewhere inside a forgotten room in Hyderabad, a crow with the hood of a cobra waits. Not a living creature, but a riveting brass totem with a story so rich, it can take hours to tell. Around it lie ghostly wind instruments made of hide and bone, leather bags that breathe music, and shadowy relics from India’s ancient forest tribes. These are not just objects; they are echoes of long-lost worlds.
A 100 years and Hyderabad turns into Urbs Humungous

3 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Serish Nanisetti

June 2 marks 11 years of the formation of Telangana. It also marks 218 years of the creation of Secunderabad. Between these two dates, a post-Independence one and a pre-colonial one, is the story of the explosive growth of an inclusive city that is now Brand Hyderabad. A city that spells biryani, chai, chips, code, and rings of circular roads. Hyderabad was a 132 sq km city with 4,04,187 souls, inside a walled area with 14 gates in 1921 and was the fourth largest city in India.
A 100 years and Hyderabad turns into Urbs Humungous

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Serish Nanisetti

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148 years after it was built, Hyderabad’s James Street Police Station gets a new lease of life

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Serish Nanisetti

148 years after it was built, the iconic James Street Police Station with its soaring belfry, clock and louver windows that came to be known as Ramgopalpet Police Station, has got a fresh lease of life. Lit up with an off white light, the street offers a glimpse of life in Secunderabad as it was in the colonial era.
148 years after it was built, James Street PS gets a new lease of life

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Serish Nanisetti

148 years after it was built, the iconic James Street Police Station with its soaring belfry, clock and louver windows that came to be known as Ramgopalpet Police Station, has got a fresh lease of life. Lit up with an off white light, the street offers a glimpse of life in Secunderabad as it was in the colonial era.
Fickle weather ravaging Telangana’s traditional mango varieties

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Serish Nanisetti

It’s the middle of May. In one of Narsapur’s sprawling mango orchard, the air is damp and the black soil, wet and soft. Instead of the hot and dry summer breeze known as ‘loo’, a mellow earthy aroma permeates everywhere. Standing in the shade of a 20-year-old Banganpalli (a.k.a. benishan and safeda) mango tree, orchard owner Srinivas looks at the still ripening mangoes. “The best taste of Banganpalli is in the final days of May. They become sweeter if the air is dry and hot.
A museum that promises a peek into the past but is caught in a legal tangle

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Serish Nanisetti

The museum building is almost ready, the catalogue of artefacts to be displayed has been prepared, the access and exit are also set. But, the entrance to the interpretation centre of the Qutb Shahi Heritage Park in Hyderabad remains locked up.
Charminar fire accident: Two narrow entrances blamed for high toll

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Serish Nanisetti

Two too narrow entrances, one to the first floor home and another wider one to the enclosed shopping space led to the disastrously high toll in the early morning blaze in Hyderabad on Sunday (May 18, 2025.) “Fire engine going inside? You must be joking. Only one person can climb the stairs of this small shutter and three persons can go inside abreast at the same time.
Early morning blaze at home snuffs out nine lives near Charminar in Hyderabad

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Serish Nanisetti

Nine persons are feared dead after an early morning blaze inside the home near Gulzar Houz in Charminar in Hyderabad on Sunday (May 18, 2025) morning. The family members were sleeping when the fire and smoke swept through their ground floor home behind the colonnaded Patthergatti area near Charminar. According to fire department officials, 10 fire tenders were rushed to the place to douse the blaze.
Serilingampally, Malkajgiri and other areas within Telangana’s ORR dip into red zone for groundwater extraction

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Serish Nanisetti

HYDERABADThe groundwater table in 145 square kilometres within the Outer Ring Road area has fallen below the bellwether mark of 20 metres below the ground level, according to the Telangana Ground Water Department data. “While the annual and decadal water table has risen over the past few years in Telangana, over-exploitation has become the norm in western and southern parts of Hyderabad. Turning it into the dangerous red zone in the period up to April 2025,” informed K.