Dhaka’s diamond in the dark


Dark clouds looming over Ahsan Manzil. -AFP

FOR more than a century, the fate of the dazzling Darya-e-Noor diamond has been sealed inside a bank vault – a mystery that haunts Khawaja Naim Murad, descendant of the former princes, or Nawabs, of Dhaka.

Locked away in 1908, were the family’s heirlooms lost during the violence at the end of British rule in 1947?

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