This year, Taj Mahal celebrates his 40th anniversary as a recording artist.
The singer/guitarist has played every kind of blues, dabbled in jazz and conducted major cross-cultural experiments. He once did an album with a quartet of tubas. He has made children’s records, movie soundtracks, Hawaiian music. He plays solo acoustic or with big band. [...]
You may call it just modern day affirmation of a historical marvel, but when the magnificent 17th century Taj Mahal in the north Indian city of Agra made it to the New Seven Wonders of the World list it meant something more than mere tokenism for millions all over the country.
After all, the luminescent [...]
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... It can be said that the principles of Vaastu Shastra guided the construction of the Taj Mahal in terms of its location, plans and shape.
With the Taj part of the new Seven Wonders of the World list, let’s take a close look at this monument from the Vaastu viewpoint.
Unbelievable though it may sound, Vaastu [...]
A sand replica of the Taj Mahal created by artist Sudarshan Pattnaik received overwhelming public votes to win the Public Prize in the Berlin International Sand Sculpture Championship.
Pattnaik’s 15-foot sculpture was one of 15 sand monuments created by artists from 10 countries.
“The overwhelming support from lovers of the Taj in Europe enabled me to [...]