I gave a talk on
August 21 to some 200 senior students of Gyan Mandir School about my new
novel `Ocean of Cobras' and was most gratified by the enthusiastic response and
the interest of many students who said that they knew so little about this
exciting period of Mughal history. The interactive session with the students at
the end of the talk was most stimulating.
I had not heard of
this school before and was very pleasantly surprised that it is one of Delhi’s
highly regarded schools with about 1500 students.
I suggested that the school
might consider doing a school project to visit places in Delhi associated with
Dara Shikoh like the Diwani Khas in the Red fort where he was tried, the Dara
Shikoh library near Kashmiri Gate and Humayun's Tomb where princess Jahanara
erected a tomb over his headless body when Aurangzeb was campaigning against
the Marathas in the Deccan.
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