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A Jeweler Chosen by the World’s Richest Man In the early 1920s, a young gem trader named Sri Tibarumal Gupta set up a jewelry house in Hyderabad — a city that, at the time, sat at the center of one of the most extraordinary concentrations of wealth anywhere on earth. The Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, was reportedly the wealthiest...

A Century Before the First Lab Grown Diamond Was Cut Sometime around 1915–16, a young man from a land-owning family in Haryana left everything familiar and made his way to Hyderabad — a city already famous across the subcontinent for its pearls, precious stones, and the extraordinary wealth of the Nizams. His name was Tibarumal Gupta, and his decision to enter the...

A Haryana Man, a City of Pearls, and a Decision That Changed Everything In 1915 or 1916 — depending on who in the family you ask — a young man from a land-owning family in Haryana packed up and moved to Hyderabad. Tibarumal Gupta had no established business waiting for him. What he had was an obsession with precious stones and a...

The Question Most Jewellers Are Afraid to Answer on Camera Somewhere in Hyderabad right now, a couple is watching a YouTube video about lab grown diamonds before they visit any store. They are checking the 4Cs, asking about IGI certification, comparing CVD versus HPHT, and deciding whether a 1-carat solitaire at ₹35,000 is genuinely the same stone as one that costs four...

Why So Many Questions — and Why They Deserve Straight Answers When someone in Hyderabad searches 1. Are Lab Grown Diamonds Real Diamonds? Short answer: yes, completely. Lab grown diamonds are composed of pure carbon arranged in the same crystal lattice structure as mined diamonds. They share the same physical, chemical, and optical properties — identical hardness (10 on the Mohs scale),...

Watching Before You Buy Is Smarter Than It Sounds Buying a diamond ring is one of the few purchases where most people do everything backwards. They walk into a store, fall in love with something sparkling under flattering showroom lights, and only afterwards start asking the questions they should have asked first — about cut grades, CVD versus HPHT, certification bodies, or...