US Ambassador to India, Kenneth Juster visited the Qutb Shahi tombs complex to mark the completion of year-long conservation efforts by the AKTC on the twin mausoleums of Taramati and Premamati. The conservation effort was aided by the US under its Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation. “Much of it is original lime stucco work. Wherever it was damaged, we restored. The dark lines etched in the recesses of the mortar set off against the white just got a clean-up,” says Ratish Nanda of Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) about the conservation effort on the two tombs.