00:00Who could ever think that an eternal love leading to the saga of infinite bondage can evolve out of
00:04a desert-like land and would blossom to be the reason to gift our world a poem in marble,
00:08the Taj. No image of the Taj, neither on canvas nor on celluloid, can adequately express its
00:14conceptual imaginary nor convey the legend, the poetry, and the romance that shrouds what
00:18Rabindranath Tagore calls, a teardrop on the cheek of time, the Taj Mahal, a spectacle in
00:23white marble, unparalleled in grandeur that depicts the sheer opulence of an era, the awesome
00:28structure, the monument of love that Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan gave to the world, stands
00:32as a testimony of his intense love for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. It is a romance celebrated in
00:37marble and glorified with precious and semi-precious stones and that's the way to appreciate it.
00:42Uttar Pradesh, the land of the Taj is rich in its cultural heritage and has always been a
00:47prominent arena of politics since the ancient times. Agra, the city of the Taj and once the
00:52capital of the Mughal Empire during the 16th through the early 18th centuries, enjoys a
00:56close proximity to the national capital city of New Delhi.
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