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19 Apr, 2014

India needs a thinker, not a despot on its peacock throne – Hindustan Times

Aurangzeb the unmusical, merciless, illiberal and ravenously ambitious Narcissus is slouching towards that helm, in the garb of his opposite number. And we, we Indians, who do not believe in the rule of the sharpened scimitar or of the pointed trisul, are the adherents of Dara Shukoh, waiting for the denouement.

The Doldrums lie motionless in our minds. The Great Cyclone is taking furious shape in the new Alamgir’s.

And, in this great contradiction, it is the spirit of Majma-ul-Bahrayn, or The Mingling of the Two Oceans, Dara’s great work on India’s two faith traditions, that calls for our attention.

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