Hyderabad: A Biography

Narendra Luther is an authority on the history and culture of Hyderabad. His works include a commissioned biography of the founder of Hyderabad, a history of Hyderabad entitled Memoirs of a City, and a novel, Beyond the Full Circle. He has also written a large number of stories, articles and essays on a variety of topics. He has won several awards for his works, which have been translated into a number of Indian and foreign languages. His columns include the popular weekly ‘Between You & Me’ for the A.P. edition of India’s national daily, ‘The Hindu’. He scripted India’s first full-length animation bi-lingual film on the legend of Bhagmati, and scripted and co-produced a documentary on the rocks of hyderabad, which won two ‘Golden Aster’ awards at the Japan International Festival of Heritage Films held at Osaka in 1999.