Repost from Facebook . Some years ago, in somewhat better days, I was in Lahore and decided to visit the Jahangir maqbara. (My guide and driver kept calling it makarba). At the entrance the door man I remonstrated when the doorman asked me to buy a “foreigner” ticket costing many times more than that for Pakistanis. I told him that Jahangir was also our emperor and i shouldnt be penalised inspite of that. He pondered a bit and agreed. The mausoleum was quite threadbare and unimpressive architecturally, and nothing compared to those of Akbar and Humayun near in Sikandara and Delhi. But Jahangir was an intersting character. He was a debauch and addicted to opium. Later Thomas Roe got him hooked to whisky also. One of his queens, Nur Jahan, was the defacto ruler of North India for a long time. Prince Salim (later Jahangir) has been immortalised for his romance with the courtesan Anarkali. Whether, this is fact or fiction is yet to be resolved? However, his record o...