Thread by @SagasofBharat

Tale of Heera Mandi:

Do you know?

What Sanjay Leela Bhansali calls a “beautiful world of Heera Mandi”, might have witnessed the painful tears of so many Hindu women during the Mughal rule & then under Ahmed Shah Abdali

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Hira mandi, comes from the name of Heera Singh Dogra, who had set up a mandi/vegetable market in this place, was earlier named as shahi mohalla when it was started by Mughals at lahore, as a place for tawaifs or concubines.

Source: Hari Singh Dogra, 19th cent, Christie’s

This is where Hindu Kathak Dancers were brought & made to dance to entertain the mughals rulers.

Ofcourse we dont have to guess how the kathak dancers ended up in tawaif kothas during Mughal era.

Thus Kathak that used to narrate the tales of Shri krishna during Bhakti movement was reduced to a dance of tawaifs to entertain the Mughal rulers.

But till the mughal era it was only limited to entertainment via dance. Then came Ahmed Shah Abdali, notorious for capturing, enslaving & selling Hindu Girls.

Source: legacy of Muslim rule in India, K.S lal

He massacred many hindu villages & captured turned the captured women into sεχ slaves n brought them to the so called Sanjay leela Bhansali’s “beautiful world of Heera Mandi. Heera Mandi turned to be the world of sεχ trafficking of helpless hindu girls.

The world of heera mandi, far from being beautiful, is actually tainted with horror. It stood as a witness to 1000s of Hindu women’s sagas of misery & humiliation. These women often were from noble families & elite classes.

From: Mughal Harem, etsy

A French author Claudine Le Tourneur d’Ison in her Book Hira Mandi, though mostly fiction, had described that girls were initiated n this kothas as early as 11 year old thus continuing the ραεδορhilic culture.

In pic: Claundine at hira mandi.

A hindu Sanjay Leela Bhansali glorifying the helplessness & miseries of some of our ancestors is mockery & humiliation of every Hindu. Shame on Hindus like Sonakshi Sinha to even portray such character.