In 'Akbar the Great CEO', Shazi Zaman compiles defining episodes of the Mughal emperor's life, distilling from them leadership lessons for modern institutions.
Statues of Emperor Akbar and his Navratnas were installed at a cost of about Rs 10 lakh, but a lock was placed on the Center during Covid period, which has not been opened to date.
After the Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan, Right-wing commenters have claimed that 'rebuilding is a civilisational responsibility Indians owe to their ancestors'. This can't be more anachronistic.
The devotional Kathak dancers of temples became the entertainers in Mughal courts with lavish costumes, refined movement and rhythmic vocabulary, and technical genius.
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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