Hyderabad, April 10 -- Mohammed Najeeb Shahzore

What do Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft), Shantanu Narayen (CEO of Adobe Inc.), the Owaisi brothers, Ajay Banga (President of Master Card), Syed Akbaruddin (former permanent representative of India at the UN), cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle and ghazal maestro Talat Aziz have in common?

They are all illustrious alumni of Hyderabad Public School at Begumpet. It was founded in 1923 as Jagirdars' College by The Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan after Mr Weikfeld, the Director General of the Court of Wards, advised him on the need to set up such an educational institution in Hyderabad.

The Court of Wards was a legal body established by the British Indian Government that protected heirs and their est...