Narendra Luther (23 March 1932 – 19 January 2021) was a poet, writer, historian,

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, and columnist. He died on the morning of Tuesday, 19 January 2021 in

Hyderabad, Telangana State Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

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. He worked on the history and culture of erstwhile

Hyderabad state Hyderabad State () was a princely state in the Deccan region of south-central India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and the ...

and its rulers. He was President of the Society to Save Rocks,

Hyderabad, India Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

.''The Hindu'' - ''Bureaucrat, poet and historian Narendra Luther passes away''
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Chief Minister of Telangana The chief minister of Telangana is the chief executive of the Indian state of Telangana. In accordance with the Constitution of India, the governor is a state's ''de jure'' head, but '' de facto'' executive authority rests with the chief minist ...

, Sri K. Chandrashekar Rao recalled the contribution of Narendra Luther on his death and expressed his condolences, ''CM KCR condoles demise of writer Narendra Luther'', ''Telangana Today'', 19 January 202

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Books

Some of the books authored by Narendra Luther include the following: * Hyderabad: A Biography * The Rockitecture of Andhra Pradesh * Raja Deen Dayal: Prince of Photographers * Prince;Poet;Lover;Builder: Mohd. Quli Qutb Shah - The founder of Hyderabad * Lashkar The Story of Secunderabad * A Bonsai Tree An Autobiography * Hyderabad Memoirs of a City * The Family Saga A Novel Set in the Time of Partition * Legend es of Hyderabad

References

External links

* http://www.narendraluther.in/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Luther, Narendra 1932 births 2021 deaths Writers from Hyderabad, India 20th-century Indian writers 20th-century Indian male writers