Behind every diamond sale or theft in the world, there is a connection to Telangana’s Golconda. And so it is with the latest heist in Paris at the Louvre, considered one of the most secure art museums of the world.

On Sunday morning (October 19), thieves rode up a vehicle mounted electric ladder, cut the glass panes, reached the display of the Galerie d’Apollon and escaped within seven minutes. The gallery is a Unesco World Heritage Site.

Among the eight items listed as stolen by the French Culture Ministry is a crown from the collection of Queen Marie-Amelie and later the Dutch Queen Hortense.

What the thieves missed were the real storied gems from India. More precisely, called Golconda diamonds, mined in Kollur and Paritala region of the kingdoms that were controlled from Hyderabad. “

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