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Love's greatest monument
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Peggy Loh
New Straits Times
12-14-2004
Love's greatest monument
Byline: Peggy Loh
Edition: 2*
BRING OUT THE ROMANTIC in you with a visit to Taj Mahal, one of the seven modern wonders of the world and the finest expression of love by Emperor Shah Jahan for his Queen Mumtaz.
Standing serene and awesome on a raised marble platform by the banks of River Yamuna in the congested city of Agra, Uttar Pradesh, the world's most extravagant monument to love marked its 350th birthday on Sept 27.
This marble masterpiece is a mausoleum in memory of Arjumand Bano Begum, popularly known as Mumtaz Mahal, who ...
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