The story of the Taj Mahal is also the story of great love, it is the story of a shattered family, the story of inconsolable grief and a story about power and influence. Rabindranath Tagore described the gem as “a teardrop on the cheek of Eternity”, Rudyard Kipling as “the embodiment of all things pure”, while its creator, Emperor Schah Jahan, said it made “the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes”
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