really interesting discussion and informative notes from readers. religiously I also belong to one of the shia sects of islam in india and probably we are converts from shudras to islam- better than being untaouchabe. in our religiousl history they say that one of our religious head was put in boiling oil as he did not follow the islam of aurangzeb!! now a couple of things to observe according to me( maybe m right maye wrong as u see it) a) we have to remember that aurangzeb was also a ruler of state so he has to also play politics,even in todays democracy we have BJP,shiv sena, muslim league etc etc. if congress is in power sena says muslims leave india, if sena is in power they dont talk about it. bottom line if u are ruling a state u play politics maybe he used religion as a main tool to rule!! b) i dont say this religion is right that is wrong, but if as someone said indian muslim dont be ignorant etc, than though i personally like the hindu philospphy but idol worship is a bit wierd, so we can also say that we indians should also not be ignorant and stop ages old aryan rituals of millions of gods created, if we search what is reality and what is more true to believe. c) i totally agree that there should not be any restrictions to such exhibitions. we need total truth. but its important how we digest it. our society needs to understand it and handle it properly. Ihope tomorrow some political parties dont come up with new idea to destroy some mosques or some muslim organisations dont come up with stupid protests against the expo. learn understand and improve the society. d) hope there is some expo about akbar i dont know much about his good or bad deeds either.
