When this columnist says we need to look history in the face in a way the French did it he is being mature. However this feeling of reading a mature article gets murky when a reader finds the underlying message or righting the wrong. The Kashmiris today have no link other than that of religion to Aurangazeb and their preference for Shariah should not be linked to Aurangzeb.
The Indian Nation is mature enough to allow Muslims to be governed by Mohammed Law in civil matters. The Muhammaden is also guided occasionally by their clerics who do decide on some civil matters. How does it affect the majority of us who are not so governed as we do not belong to the Muslim faith? Whenever there are cases that breach good governance like the Imrana case the courts go beyond those rules and punish the rapist instead of decreeing that the person raped now has found a new husband at the cost of his existing one.
And correct me if I am wrong too but Dara Sikho along with his brothers Sujah and Murad like Aurangzeb raced to Delhi when Shah Jahan was sick to decide who the new ruler would be. Aurangazeb managed to put his siblings to death (not for interest in Hinduism) and when wonder of wonders when the old man improved in health he was consigned to Agra fort where he lived another 8(? or so) years before he died.
