India Booked | Understanding Akbar
b"In the first episode, India Booked talks to Manimugdha Sharma, News Editor\\xa0and\\nauthor of\\xa0Allahu Akbar: Understanding the Great Mughal in Today's India.\\xa0Listen\\nto discover about mughals, akbars, nationalism and how bollywood gets Akbar\\nwrong.\\nManimugdha Sharma is a quizzer, a journalist, and holds an interest and\\neducation in history. In\\xa0Allahu\\xa0Akbar,\\xa0he combines his love and knowledge of the\\npast, to give us an interesting oral account of what Akbar represents in today's\\ntimes. We discuss Akbar's ruthless achievements in warfare, his political\\nsavviness and how media agenda setting and the (mis)representation of matters\\nhas not changed through times. We also touch upon the subject of secularism and\\ndiscuss if Akbar was the statesman he's made to be and ask the pertinent\\nquestion: should the present be judged by the yardstick of the past? Listen in\\nto find out!"