![]() ![]() She tells us how she ended up picking Aurangzeb. Truschke, an assistant professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey, begins the book by telling the reader the reason behind her authoring it - A Twitter message that asked her if she wanted to write an accessible biography of one of the Mughal kings. Read out : The book is available for sale on Amazon (pic: Good Reads) She obviously doesn't want to dust those leaves of memory, but she tells us that "it consists of graphic death and rape threats and severe anti-Semitism." But she has her own ways of dealing with it - Analyse, ignore, understand that it is rarely personal, check out of social media for a while and sip some wine. So naturally, a year and a half later, when Truschke published her book, she was subjected to a lot of hatred, especially from the right wing. ![]() The debates about this 17th century Mughal gained much momentum in 2015, when New Delhi's Aurangzeb Road was rechristened Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road, owing to the myth of 'Aurangzeb, the villain'. ![]()
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