The Great Indian Ropeway Trick
Centuries ago, when Mughal emperor Shah Jahan cast his melancholic lovelorn gaze on the marble dome rising in commemoration of his favourite queen Mumtaz, little did he realize that the real tragedy was not in the passing of his beloved but in the future preservation of the Taj Mahal itself...
...Once the ropeways and Agra Eye are in place in Agra, the original Taj will also become a caricature of itself. And Shah Jahan will finally laugh and cry at the same time.
Insightful article by Gautam Bhatia. Monuments across India suffer in varying degrees by the apathy , ignorance and incompetence of successive governments.
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