The great Mughal ruler, Akbar, built the city of Fatehpur Sikri in the 16th century to be his new capital. Within 13 years, he abandoned it. The reason? Lack of water. It’s a story that the late Anupam Mishra often cited, saying, “Let us not be as foolish as Akbar!”
At the end of his TED talk in 2009 on Rajasthan’s marvellous water-harvesting structures, Anupamji received. . .
