On Sunday morning, when Chief Minister Revanth Reddy enters the portals of the refurbished Telangana Council Hall for the first time after the formation of Telangana, he will be creating history. More than 11 years after the formation of the State, the Legislative Council members will debate, discuss and disagree in the same location where the legislative business of Hyderabad State was conducted when it was a princely kingdom. Refurbished and resurrected after an 18-month effort by the State government and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), the exemplar of Indo-Saracenic structure looks like an alabaster gem from inside. When the AKTC got involved with the project, it found layers of interventions. “There were layers of paints, there were partitions that had been added over the years. The ceiling was extensively damaged due to which there was seepage,” says Ratish Nanda, chief executive officer of Aga Khan Trust for Culture.