INFO ON HYDERABAD BAWDI
Topic started by KARTHIK SUBRAMANIAN (@ 202.43.61.57) on Wed Jul 4 06:36:17 .
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I would be happy if anyone could provide information regarding HYDERABAD BAWDI. A place where in the 18th and 19th century some of the great classical musicians used to have concert.
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- From: Jayasrinivasa Rao (@ )
on: Mon Oct 28 00:54:44
Dear karthik,
I know of such bawdis--one is inside CIEFL campus, Osmania University campus, on the road from osmania university arts college to Tarnaka. I was a student at CIEFL, and the bawdi was in a very bad shape, and was actually being used as a campus dustbin. its fortune changed in 1997, when a new VC was appointed--Prof Pramod Talgeri. on his evening and morning walks, he would come across this strange well dumped with all kinds of rubbish and he became curious. After some questioning, it was discovered that the Bawdi used to belong to one Mahalaka Bai Chanda, a very famous poetess, during the nizams. The Bawdi was the place where poets and poetesses were invited for recitations and concerts. Susie Tharu and K Lalitha's "Women Writing in India" vol 1-2, has an introduction and a selection of Chanda's ghazals. Prof Talgeri then got the whole well cleaned and renovated and the lost glory of chanda's Bawdi returned to full form on August 14, 1997, when Pandita Malini Rajurkar gave a full hundustani classical vocal concert to commemorate the 50th anniversary of our independence . The concert began at 12 and went on till morning. The bawdi is fully functional now and two years back Pandit Jasraj's yearly "Pandit Maniram and Pandit Motiram Sangeet Samaroh" was held in the bawdi for three days. It was bliss!
CIEFL also got the INTACH heritage award for the restoration of this historic well.
There is another bawdi closeby, in the college of education, actually CIEFL's next door neighbour. It continues to remain a dustbin!!
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