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Offers a fictionalized account of the life of Mehrunnisa, a sixteenth-century empress of India whose love helped shape the course of the Mughal empire in the seventeenth century.

When she discovers that her husband and his mother are planning to kill her because she has failed to produce a child and her family has failed to produce the promised dowry, Megha, running for her life, finds a safe harbor in the arms of a good friend, a relationship that is strictly forbidden.

The author describes how she decided to return to her native India in order to find a husband.

Photographs and text explore the themes used through the centuries by village craftsmen on Hindu temples, Mogul palaces, and traditional crafts and reveals how modern designers are reinterpreting these forms and returning to the indigenous skills of Indian craftsmen and women.

In India, a girl who excels at Bharatanatyam dance refuses to give up after losing a leg in an accident.

In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the Taj Mahal.