Taj Mahal Monument reopens – The Taj Mahal Monument has reopened to tourists after a curfew was lifted following riots that left one person dead and dozens injured in the northern city of Agra.
Thousands of visitors usually flock to the riverside the Taj, but only a few braved the tense Agra streets after the [...]
Even as the world excitedly talks about the recently discovered mummy believed to be of Egyptian queen Hatshepsut, in India the mystery surrounding Mumtaz Mahal’s burial at the Taj Mahal has deepened with several Mughal historians asserting that her body was not mummified.
Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built the 17th century Taj Mahal in memory [...]
An enduring love story
India’s Poet laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, who was Asia’s first Nobel Prize winner, first called the Taj Mahal “a drop of tear on the cheek of history”.
The fact of Taj Mahal is also a tragic and enduring love story, a perfect symmetrical dream in marble which is listed as the Seventh Wonder [...]
Taj Mahal is the symbol of eternal love, a visitor may often get lost in the memories of the stories he had heard from his child-hood looking at this structure as well as its image reflected in the pool below. The story is that this beautiful structure was built by one of the most [...]
Read More...The epitome of love, Taj Mahal will be a mouse click away now. The Archaeological survey of India, the government agency for the maintenance and conservation of monuments in India will soon start e-ticketing to facilitate visitors visiting Taj from all over the world. The sixteenth century white marble mausoleum of Mughal king, Shahjahan [...]
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