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Long ago, before she'd developed feelings for AMK, I had asked Sandy (and maybe a few others) who were bowled over by Heera... if ever she 'slipped-up' would your feelings for her mitigate?At that point, Sandy had said no...This part of Heera's life was the slip-up (if you may call it that) that I was referring to...Even now i wouldn't call it a slip as it was not deliberate. Had the wedding not been fixed or Mahender not turned the tables, she would have still been perfect in her duties to her state.So, she did not plan to run away with AMK like the Laila Majnu types... neither did she drown her life in love and sorrow like Shah Jahan did for Mumtaz Mahal... nor did she squander away her position and responsibilities like Jehangir did when Nur Jahan came into his life...These two always choose duty over love, yet love in all sincerity. That makes them special.😳Aurangazeb - This man was a male chauvinist, a traditionalist, who was known to have no weakness for women. His wife was the princess of Iran and he did give her great respect - but he never allowed women to rule his decisions (unlike his predecessors)Till he met a girl called Hira Bai (yeah yeah another Hira... lol)Now Aurangazeb was an orthodox Muslim. He hated other religions and everything unIslamic. But when he visited his uncle, in the gardens, he saw this 15 year old girl who was jumping up to pick up a mango from a tree.That's all.. what more did he know about her at this stage? Nothing. Apart from that she was beautiful and could pluck mangoes? Lol.But he couldn't forget her. Even after he went back. Accounts say, he couldn't take the constant pain in his chest.So much so that his well wishers started plotting to kill his uncle so he would get the slave girl. But Aurangazeb stopped them - and eventually spoke to his aunt about having fallen for his uncle's slave girl.She understood - mediated the situation - and they traded slave girls (Loool)After that, Hira came to his palace. Even then he didn't give up his duties/work/etc. But he could love no one else like he loved her. She was supposed to be a Christian slave girl, but he didn't convert her (I don't think) though he was out to convert everyone else in the country. She would playfully challenge him to take a sip of her wine, of her opium drink and he would do it just to keep her happy (this was the most orthodox Muslim around, who never drank) No, he didn't become a lovelorn drunk or wasn't loitering around her all the time. His military campaigns didn't stop. He didn't stop expanding the empire. But, as a man, he changed quite a bit for her.Eventually, a year later Hira bai succumbed to disease and died.He was never the same man again. Became more ruthless, they say.
Thanks for the story. I'm hearing it for the first time.🤗
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