Word: jahan
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...finished Jasvinder Sanghera's memoir Shame in four days. I pray more socially minded Asian women follow Sanghera's footsteps in setting up refuge centers for Asian women. I congratulate her for founding the organization Karma Nirvana, not for the rocky path she has taken. M.S. Shah Jahan Colombo...
There is nothing offhand about The Peacock Throne, named after the Red Fort seat from which the 17th century Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan held sway over all Hindustan. Saraf casts a scientist's eye on the country of his birth and finds it still preoccupied with holding sway. He starts with Indira Gandhi's 1984 assassination by Sikh bodyguards and the spasm of anti-Sikh violence that ensued. Kartar Singh, a Sikh who runs a Chandni Chowk appliance store, narrowly escapes death in the rioting - and leverages that experience to gain influence in a Hindu nationalist party...
...seem strange in the land of the Taj Mahal - one of the greatest-ever public displays of affection, built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his late wife - that an increase in public displays of affection is so notable, but this increase is a departure for a culture that has long kept hidden its romantic emotions. In the recent past, unmarried couples would not hold hands in public, let alone kiss or cuddle. Affairs were hushed up, as Gandhi's was for more than eight decades...
...Mahal Saved When Shah Jahan finished the gleaming white Taj Mahal in 1648, he never dreamed that iron foundries and other factories would someday cause the monument to become yellowed and pitted. In 1993 the Indian Supreme Court ordered 230 of the facilities shut down until they install pollution controls...
...Moreover, the losses are accelerating. In 1991 the Municipal Corporation of Delhi tore down much of the outer wall of Qila Rai Pithora, one of the city's last surviving pre-Islamic structures. Shah Jahan's great Shalimar Garden, where Aurangzeb was crowned, now has a municipal housing colony on its land. This March, there was an attempt to concrete over the sultanate-period Hauz-i-Shamsi in Mehrauli...