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Human Sacrifice!

Call me spoilsport. Call me weird. Because folks, the historical white Taj Mahal, sadly does not excite me. If you tell me, it denotes the love of Shah Jehan to his wife, I say bull shit! You say it is a marvel of architecture, I say, at what expense?
Easily the most photographed
building in the world!
It is a symbol of cruelty, of despotism, of one man's crazy dream to build the finest marble mausoleum for a lady succumbing to complications of post partum haemorrhage after delivering her 14th heir to the throne. The lineage to the throne is nothing to shout about anyway. We have all heard how the offspring without skipping a generation have imprisoned their elders, their parents and fought amongst themselves for greed of power.
The mausoleum is a reminder of all the devilish offspring borne by the mother's uteri to be born on Mother Earth for this eternal mother to carry the weight of the sin of their atrocities. It also reminisce the worker force, skilled and otherwise, who lost their dignity, times spent with family, their sight, their limbs (for fear by the king of craftsmen repeating such a feat elsewhere).
Coca chewing slaves toiled here!
I suppose the same can be said of such 'Wonders of the World' - Angkor Wat, Pyramids, Great Wall of China, Mayan Temples, Machu Pichu... 
But then again, some of these mammoth structures may not been men made but rather ancient alien technology infused / imparted, human slaves toiled, self (alien) serving monuments... Food for thought!
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  1. Anonymous4 November 2012 at 00:23

    There is always two side of a story but whatever the story, India is making money out of the monuments.

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  2. Anonymous4 November 2012 at 18:09

    Well said.A good view on the reality of the subject.I believe it was built not for the show of love but for power.The same Shah Jehan also had many concubines ,an accepted norm among the rulers those days.....so much for true love!

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