Sunday, November 28, 2004

The Taj Mahal is going to be opened for night-time viewing. I couldn't be less excited about this piece of information if I tried. In my not-so-humble opinion, the Taj Mahal has got be one of the most over-rated monuments in the world. The reason (again IMNSHO) is that it is so over-hyped that when you see it in real life, it can never hope to match the mile-high expectations that have been set.

Funnily enough, the first thing that comes to my mind whenever I look back on my visit to the Taj Mahal is bumbling around in a tomb in pitch-dark (I don't remember the reason for the darkness, though), banging my knee against one of the tombs and heartily cursing the entire dynasty of emperors and their unborn generations.