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Visitors to the Taj Mahal all confront the same eternal mystery: How could the people who fashioned the world's most serene monument to love also build on its doorstep one of the ugliest, filthiest and most cacophonous cities in existence? If the heartbroken Shah Jahan's mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal is everything India should be--spiritual, awesome, peaceful--Agra, with its choking traffic, litter-strewed dirt roads and throngs of grotesque beggars is everything it unfortunately still is. "This not what I expected," says Camilla, 22, a psychology student visiting from Sweden. "Not at all. I mean...
...recent episode of the hit TV show The Apprentice, Donald Trump challenged a gaggle of fawning dealmaker wannabes to boost revenue at his Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Eager to impress, Trump's pupils got right to work. But they might have just as quickly asked, Who the heck is Trump to judge? After all, his casino empire has been losing money for years...
...INDIA THE PALACE ON WHEELS This eight-day round-trip adventure begins in Delhi, taking you to the Rajasthani palaces of Jaipur and Udaipur, the fortresses at Jaisalmer and Jodhpur and the Taj Mahal in Agra. The 14 coaches of the train?each of them lavishly decorated with silk and velvet fittings?are named after former Rajput states. It's a train ride, luxury holiday and history lesson all rolled into one?and a bargain at $395 per night...
...chief ministers are untarnished by scandal. Perhaps most notorious today is Mayawati, who resigned in August as chief minister of India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh, to fight charges that her freewheeling administration threatened to undermine the very foundations of the country's national symbol, the Taj Mahal. According to charges drawn up by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Mayawati and others in the state government flouted rules on the environment and competitive tendering in their plans for a $60 million tourist mall, positioned uncomfortably close behind the marble mausoleum. The construction required the Yamuna River to be diverted...
...Lucky Girls are drawn from her experiences living among Americans in Asia. In the title story, about a young American woman drifting in New Delhi after the death of her married Indian lover, Freudenberger hits the telling detail again and again, as when her narrator looks at the Taj Mahal and catches "the unexpected view of something everyone in the world has seen a thousand times." In The Orphan, Alice muses that Bangkok is "like a dream of Los Angeles," which at the same time "reminds her of the Mexican Day of the Dead." The loose anarchy of every visitor...