It was at Kalanaur that the only other ‘great’ king in Indian history — apart from Chandragupta Maurya — kick-started his career. The ill-timed demise of the heroic Mughal king, Humayun on January 19, 1556, had created a crisis for the Mughal Empire. And the magnificent Takht-i-Akbari, a sandstone podium on which Akbar the Great was crowned, exists to this day. And then I see it, the sandstone platform radiant yellow in the light of the blazing hot sun. Here sat the greatest king, Akbar, that the country has seen in the past 1,000 years.

Source: The Hindu July 27, 2017 09:03 UTC