Today my hsotel H2, IITB performed the first PAF of 2006. which shall be the last PAF I shall see as a student. The entire PAF went without a putch.. minor lites ones excluded.. And Ithink it mite go on to win the Trophy
It was a pretty strange tale.. and focuses on the Shahjahans journey of life....
from that of his ascension to the throne via a struggle -> his reign as a king who appreciates arts and how his Vizier is able to make him take the path of war andexpansion
This is where the story takes a twist
It was shown that he loses a battle and realises that his name may not last in the annals of time., cos there mite be ppl who are better expansionists than him....
Hence hetells his Vizier to think of a plan whereby he cna stay etched in the annals of time permenantly.....At thsi juncture his son showshim a model of the would-be taj mahal....
The scene fast forwards to the place when aurangjeb imprisons Shahjahan. The scene again goes back to flashback, to the point where shahjahan sees the model of Tajmahal.. at that juncture the says that he shall make a monument to show his love for his wife.... and then decrieds that she be Killed for him to get the chance to show his love...
Though the entire script is a shocker, there is no way for me to verifyu the authenticity of the claim...
But it does put u into thinking
How many such secrets are hidden in the entire world? where briothers have killed their kin for paltry things like riches and kingdoms... And how many of these brothers have been then crowned and then revered as gods...
Apart from the fricking Mughal rulers in whose line it was necessary to kill to succeed, I think this was a second nature to each and every family with more than 1 heir... or even in that case it cud very well be the heir's uncles daughters husbands brothers son who puts a knife and becomes the king...
One prob with the script was the fact that it did glorify the Mughals...
It is not limited to the script,, tho... Any book on history wud be glorifying the Mughals...
Isnt this not the person who invaded and raped your lands... defiled ur temples and laid waste entire towns???
True they may have brought in a stable rule, centralised currency and al that crap.. but that was for ensuring that they stay in power... not for the betterment of the people...
A quote is remembered, which says that 'the meat, bread and clothes that we get frome the butcher, the baker and the tailor are not becos of their benevolence but becos of their hunger'
Troubled
Nadya
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