Lucknow/Mumbai/Pune: For VIPs coming to the City of Nawabs, all roads once led to the 180-acre fortified Sahara estate. That was some 15 years ago. Today, a white shirt is hung out to dry on its arched gate, locked and sealed with wax.

A notice from the Lucknow Municipal Corporation now claims what remains of the deserted estate, once the nerve centre of an empire with more than 36,000 acres in land assets and home to the first family of the Sahara Pariwar.

“Those were the times,” said a roadside vendor who had watched its zenith and decline. The riches that supposedly lay inside are still discussed, including apparently a surfeit of poultry. “ Panch sau se zyada toh sirf Kadaknath murge the andar ”— They bred over 500 Kadaknath chickens inside. Show Full Article

Sahara Shahar is one

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