![]() ![]() His tribe was of Mongol origin, and the word Mughal is itself derived from “Mongol”. ![]() “The Mughal Empire in South Asia was begun by Babur, who came from Central Asia, specifically what is today Uzbekistan. They were standing together on the jharoka, an elaborately carved balcony with a roof, each with a glass of nimbu pani, though Shaw would have preferred a good Scotch. “Well, that’s a complicated question, and the answer is a controversial one, so I till try to explain it as neutrally as I can,” Haven replied, and she indeed sounded neutral. “The native Marathis, you say-are Mughals not native? Or merely from another part of India?” It surprises me that a Mughal structure remained without being torn down, though it was taken over.” “But as much of India as they had conquered, the native Marathis were just as constantly pushing them back. He was interested in architecture, and in martial history. “The Mughals were constantly trying to invade Mumbai,” Haven explained, while Shaw nodded along. But she was also.not an unengaging conversationalist. No, if he were to describe Radha “Haven” Dastoor, he’d probably start with insipid, senseless, and downright delusional. Although it was the last word he’d describe her with. But at least she didn’t dare think she was better than him, so she was that sensible at least. He suspected that it had something to do with growing up with money, taking it front granted and thus not comprehending its worse. Some people, Shaw had found, were just mad like that. She seemed to love being around that type, in fact, went out of her way to benefit them, centered her entire life around it. She didn’t seem to have the proverbial stones to look down on anybody, and she certainly was around people who actually deserved it. Haven, though, did not seem to look down on him. Shaw looked down on those who only inherited wealth, just as they had often looked down on him for earning his. Most of all, though, he liked learning the fact that the woman earned at least a little of her own money in some kind of sense, even if by her own admission she only owned it, not managed it. Well, perhaps that was subjective, but it was built within a restored Mughal Palace, and Shaw had to admit he was impressed with the great domes and slender minarets, the massive vaulted gateways and delicate ornamentation, the elegant water gardens and charbagh walkways through the carefully cultivated yet lush tropical greenery. Haven’s wealth was originally inherited, but she’d kept it coming-so that she could keep giving it away-through The Rajmani, a luxury heritage hotel on par with the likes of New York’s Ritz or Plaza. Mutants that, for the moment, were staying with them in The Rajmani. ![]() and bring out the mutants being sold, enslaved, and Heaven wept at what else. ![]() ) and thus she had an abundance of detectives and double agents on the inside.Īnd because they were on the inside, they could bring in the medicine. And of course she hadn’t been able to do all that alone, she had been funding an entire network of people to get this done, to keep the rescued parties safe and help them in getting to a new life, to block off or arrest those who tried to take them back or attack the rescuers themselves (Haven had been a target MANY times, but those had been in the days when she’d been kept safe by The Adversary’s powers. Not because she had ever been involved with it, but because she had done so much work getting people out of it-the women and children she had worked to get out of human trafficking rings, the survival sex workers rescued from abusive pimps, the children enticed away from little “found families” of criminals who used them for their dirty work.the list went on. No, where Haven came in most handy was, shockingly, her knowledge of Mumbai’s criminal underworld. But, Shaw could have done most of that himself, aside from the hidden colonies. Her philanthropy had connected her with doctors, hospitals, shelters, and its hidden communities of those suffering afflictions such as the oft-claimed-eradicated leprosy. At first Shaw had thought this was a bit racist of Charles, but it turned out not only was Haven from Mumbai specifically herself, she had wonderful connections for the tasks. Accompanying him on the recommendation of Charles Xavier was Radha Dastoor-Haven of the healing gardens, whom he had previously met when she had helped with his back. ![]()
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