PARIS: Ali Akbar knows everyone and everyone knows him: the last newspaper hawker in Paris, he zigzags each day from cafe to cafe, shouting humorous headlines in the heart of the French capital.

The most loved Mughal emperor is brought to life in this period piece by Shazi Zaman, who successfully inhabits the monarch’s restless mind, providing enough fodder to readers to take in the sights, ...

Trace the Mughal conquest of India. Review the basic tenets of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Islam, Jainism, and Christianity. Understand Akbar's vision of a universal religion. Using new weaponry, the ...

Did you know that Emperor Akbar — the most powerful Muslim ruler in India’s history — gradually stopped offering Islamic prayers, rejected many traditional rituals, and eventually crafted a path of ...

Jodhaa Akbar concerns Akbar the Great (1542-1605), a military prodigy who consolidated and expanded the Mughal empire in south Asia. He promoted a tolerant society, oversaw a cultural boom, and ...

Akbar’s policy of sulh-e-kul (complete harmony) was not merely a talking point. The Emperor took active steps to ensure that the various groups of his diverse empire know each other better. Abul Fazl ...

For someone who claims to be an accidental writer of history, Ira Mukhoty’s writing is nuanced and deeply personal. Her third and latest work is the herculean effort to chart the life of Mughal ...

Belgian writer Dirk Collier has written a fictional autobiography of emperor Akbar, laced with facts, titled The Emperor’s Writings. And in order to avoid any misunderstandings about what is fact and ...

The story of Akbar’s grandeur will be incomplete if we don’t mention the names of his navratnas. The navratnas of Akbar were as follows: Raja Birbal, Miyan Tansen, Abul Fazal, Faizi, Raja Man Singh, ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. – An Army sergeant was convicted Thursday by a military jury of premeditated murder and attempted murder in a grenade and rifle attack that killed two of his comrades and wounded 14 ...