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The Taj Mahal and Not So Beautiful Wonder Of The World

I visited Taj Mahal very recently.
And I sat sown to write the blog. Here are some cautions for all those Taaj lovers.
My dream for Taj for last 50 years got shattered, when I, at last, got a chance to to look to this sublime beauty.
My mind and my heart got shattered in to tiny pieces.
it was devastated by British, who robbed all the jewels and gold from this tomb of love,
The Archaeological society of India, who are not competent enough, to maintain his saga of love and

Our own Indian uncivilised dirty minded tourists, who feel all the tombs and monument are their fore fathers property, so that they can sacrilege and deface them as they wish.

The foreigners are coming in hordes, to check, if British had done a proper robbery!!!!!! Or is there any thing left over for them?

While the white domed marble and tile mausoleum is most familiar, Taj Mahal is an integrated complex of structures that was completed around 1648. Ustad Ahmad Lahauri is generally considered as the principal designer of Taj Mahal.
The marble dome that surmounts the tomb is its most spectacular feature. Its height is about the same size as the base of the building, about 35 metre and is accentuated as it sits on a cylindrical "drum" of about 7 metre high.

At the corners of plinth stand minarets, the four large towers each more than 40 metre tall. The minarets display Taj Mahal's penchant for symmetry. These towers are designed as working minarets, a traditional element of mosques as a place for a muezzin to call the Islamic faithful to prayer. Each minaret is effectively divided into three equal parts by two working balconies that ring the tower. At the top of the tower is a final balcony surmounted by a chattri that mirrors the design of those on the tomb. The minaret chattris share the same finishing touches, a lotus design topped by a gilded finial. Each of the minarets were constructed slightly outside of the plinth, so that in the event of collapse, a typical occurrence with many such tall constructions of the period, the material from the towers would tend to fall away from the tomb.

The Left Front Minar

The Right Front Minar

The Right Back Minar

The Left Back Minar
You must see the floor plan to understand the Architect's creative mind and then at that period the execution of that era engineers, who did not possess a degree from our IIT!!!!

The Two tombs at the center are of Shajehan and Mumtaaz. There are no lights inside the mausoleum, except a chandelier( With an incandescent lamp) donated by Lord Curzon. Photography or any kind of lighting is resented and prohibited by the care takers of the the grave.

The calligraphic Islamic preaching is embossed on the gate. The Zafri work on the marble( It is One Piece) takes the breath away.

The Main Tomb