Bura na maano Holi hai’ is the defensive phrase used by adults for their children violating consent of passersby, usually women. But kids must be told better.
Shukla, who has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Deewar Mein Ek Khidki Rahti Thi, says he got only Rs 1.35 lakh in the past 25 years from Vani Prakashan.
What made him ‘Akbar the Great’ was not the might of his armies alone, but the political architecture he built to sustain power over a subcontinent teeming with diversity.
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