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AN ILL WIND OVER A CITY’S HERITAGE

If the courts do not rescue it from a perilous fate, Hyderabad could well bid adieu to what has been an integral part of the city’s cultural and architectural heritage—the century-old original building of Osmania General Hospital (OGH). A gift by its last Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, the plan to build the hospital was conceived after the deadly bubonic plague of 1911, even though

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