India, May 2 -- For decades, reporters were obsessed with the aristocratic family who lived in Malcha Mahal, a medieval hunting lodge without electricity or running water, in Delhi's Ridge forest. [Begum Wilayat Mahal and her children Princess Sakina and Prince Ali Raza (who called himself Prince Cyrus) claimed to be descendants of the last nawab of Awadh Wajid Ali Shah and his freedom fighter wife Hazrat Mahal. For a decade before they moved into the dilapidated lodge in 1986, they had occupied the first-class waiting room of the New Delhi railway station demanding that some of the properties of the erstwhile House of Awadh, usurped by the British in 1856, be restored to them. Wilayat allegedly committed suicide by swallowing crushed dia...