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The recently released fictional fairy tale movie, "Jodha Akbar" has stirred the hornet's nest by depicting a period in Indian History when Mughals ruled India. It has started many debates, and has led to many protests across India. The debates and protests pertained to the supposedly misrepresented history, as one cannot tell for sure whether Akbar did or did not marry a rajput princess named Jodhabai. But these protests and debates missed another important point, perhaps which is more important than any other debatable issues about this movie, the portrayal of Akbar as India's emporer and for that matter the mughal rule itself. The following paragraph appears in the Indian History article on wikipedia. " Liberal Muslim kings are also a part of Indian pride. Akbar was a powerful Mughal emperor who admired Hinduism, forged familial and political bonds with Hindu Rajput kings, and developed for the first time in medieval India an environment of religious freedom. A

Today is indeed a sad day for our people. The forces of evil are eclipsing the last hindu kingdom of the subcontinent. In the recently concluded polls in Nepal, the maoists have won 25 of 40 seats for which results have been declared and are leading in 70 out of 122 constituencies. Their leader "Prachanda", which means the fierce one in Nepali, alias Pushpa Kamal Dahal has won his seat with a huge margin and many important candidates of the Nepalese Congress are trailing behind. The interlocutor from the government's side in the talks with the maoists and the home minister of Nepal, a political heavy weight from Nepal congress, Krishna Prasad Sitaula has lost. The communist party of nepal, party of the democracy abiding communists, is in for a resounding defeat. The other parties including the most important one , Nepal Congress, are likely to suffer heavy setbacks. Nepal and India are two nations joined by bonds of blood. The peoples of both the countries belong to one a