Every royal family, no matter how sweeping its estates or how luminous its jewellery vaults, carries at least one story that refuses to stay tucked away. Some linger like a stubborn rumour, others ...

The Wadiyar dynasty of Mysore had been plagued by a curse for centuries, unless Princess Trishika Kumari Wadiyar broke it. Popular folklore goes that Queen Alamelamma had cursed the dynasty 400-years ...