A diamond like no other, a curse like no other? This is the story of the world?s largest diamond?Aasma-i-Noor (sky of light). This rare red jewel of incomparable beauty surpassed its sister stones?Koh-i-Noor (mountain of light) and Darya-i-Noor (sea of light)?all mined from the same womb of the Kollur mine in Golconda. This was a diamond with a far more violent history than her sisters. Her existence was zealously guarded down the ages by a select circle. Over time, even her name disappeared from all historical texts, bards? tales and living memory itself. The modern-day search for the lost jewel begins in two different corners of the world, involving a British research scholar in London and an Indian historian in Calcutta. The British scholar finds