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What made me write the play
Aurangzeb or
rather, who led me to writing it? Don’t be surprised; it was Schopenhauer, the
great German philosopher! I was reading a book on him, when I came across this
line in which he acknowledged that he owed his philosophical wisdom to the
great book from India, The
Upanishads, which he read in Latin
translation by a Frenchman called Abraham Hyacinth Anquetil-Duperron. The
Frenchman, according to Schopenhauer, had rendered it in Latin from the Persian
translation of Dara Shikoh, the eldest son of Shah Jahan – the great Mogul
Emperor who built the Taj Mahal.