1. It was a bumper year for Telangana heritage as the 800-year-old Ramappa Temple made it to the elite group of world heritage sites listed by UNESCO. 2. There was some movement on documentation of Hyderabad’s Qutb Shahi heritage to make a case at UNESCO for the heritage city tag. 3. But beyond these marquee developments, it’s been a year of lows for Hyderabad’s 500-year-old heritage. 4. Many questions were raised by citizens of Hyderabad in 2021 as heritage became relegated to the margins of political thinking. 5. The Chief Minster said that if the Living Root bridges of Meghalaya received the UNESCO World Heritage Site tag, it would be more about the larger message that they would be giving to the world.