Aurangzeb is dead. Why won't we move on? | The Proxy

The ghost of Aurangzeb is back to haunt us — again. A man who died three centuries ago is still fuelling communal fires in modern India. A film, a riot, a curfew. The cycle repeats. Why can’t we move on? In this episode of The Proxy, Manish Adhikary reads out a column by Kamlesh Singh, dissecting why India keeps resurrecting Aurangzeb’s ghost and what it says about us as a nation. Are we ready to let history stay history? Or will we keep fighting over the past while the future waits?