** Anarkali: Fact or fiction?**](http://www.dawn.com/weekly/images/images13.htm)
It is now believed that Anarkali was in her forties or older:eek: when she was suspected of having an affair with the heir apparent, Prince Salim, who was then in the thirtieth year of his life and father to at least three sons :eek: from numerous wives. Salim’s father, the otherwise enlightened Emperor Akbar, found out and ordered Anarkali to be buried alive.
Why? Because she was Akbar’s concubine too:eek: , and the mother of 27-year-old Danial (Salim’s youngest brother) — …
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…Here is the ultimate male fantasy, then. The mature woman from the harem of Akbar, who risked death for a fling with a younger man almost the same age as her grown up son, is eventually transformed into a nubile young girl. Her moral eccentricities are removed; her daftness stays though she must place it at the disposal of her man.