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TopicBahadur Shah Zafar

Topic: Bahadur Shah Zafar

1857 rebels marched to Delhi with a plan—not a spontaneous ‘chalo maro’, says Sohail Hashmi

The 1857 capture of Delhi was planned, not a sudden uprising by ‘angry men’, said oral historian Sohail Hashmi at his talk ‘1857 Rebels Reach Delhi’ at INTACH.

SC dismisses plea of woman claiming to be Bahadur Shah Zafar’s heir, seeking possession of Red Fort

The 2-judge bench called the petition 'misconceived & meritless', asking why it does not seek ownership over other Mughal forts.

‘My ancestors ruled Hindustan through force & fear. Now others will’ – Bahadur Shah after 1857

‘Tears of the Begums’, the first ever English translation of Hasan Nizami's Begumat ke Aansoo, chronicles the turning of the wheel of fortune after India's first war of independence.

Bollywood is fascinated with Mughals — from Akbar to Saleem to Bahadur Shah Zafar

In ‘Bollygeek’, Diptakirti Chaudhuri puts together an extensive range of trivia on India’s film industry.

Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal who would rather have been a poet

The last Mughal wrote beautiful ghazals while in exile in Yangon, where he spent his last days.

Why Pakistan’s PM talked of Tipu Sultan the day he decided to release IAF pilot Abhinandan

Citing two historical figures, Bahadur Shah Zafar and Tipu Sultan, Imran Khan upheld the latter as his role model.

The ruin of Zafar Mahal: Mughal era’s last holdout is now a den of drug addicts and gamblers

The former Mughal palace has been subsumed by unauthorised constructions, and run over by drug addicts and gamblers.

On Camera

IndiGo was irresponsible — but so was a regulatory system that failed to act on time

The IndiGo crisis shows it's time to empower the DGCA as an independent statutorily approved regulator and not just as an attached office of the civil aviation ministry.

Niti Aayog CEO has a message for power stakeholders. Buckle up for surge to feed EVs, data centres

Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.

Dubai Tejas crash revives focus on advanced, fully automated safety systems

Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.