From the Department of Amazing Stories:
Carve out 30 minutes of your weekend to read this. Trust me. I haven't read an article as fascinating as this one in a LONG time.
This story has it all, poison with crushed diamonds...a royal family forced to live in a train station...a crumbling old mansion in the middle of the jungle inhabited by a reclusive prince. It's a Hindu Grimm's fairy tale. And the writer unfolds everything expertly.