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  Book traces India’s tryst with world’s most precious diamonds

  India | Dec 26, 2019, 03:01 PM IST

  A new book chronicles how the world's 12 greatest diamonds that emanated from Golconda and Kollur mines in Andhra Pradesh were whisked away by Mughals, Persians, Brits, French, Turks and Russians after centuries of bloody wars, conspiracies and million-dollar deals, and now ensconced in their national treasures. Sanjay Dharwadker's "Diamond In My Palm" goes on to say that ancient India was not only like a golden sparrow but as much a mine of invaluable glittering solitaires.

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  Oliver, You Are A Precious Stone, Says Manoj Kumar

  Bollywood | Oct 29, 2010, 04:44 PM IST

  At the final day of the 12th Mumbai Film Festival, awards were bestowed to several deserving films, but the limelight was on the two receipients of the lifetime achievement award “Before you came to India,  you