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Post-Modern Mughals

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Ashby's World
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In India you will find buildings of a sort to transfix and transport your sensibilities to the highest planes and also to drag them to the saddest and most desperately sorry depths. And often they are near neighbours.

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Posted in India, travel | Tagged architecture, concrete, east meets west, India, mughals, post-modernism, taj mahal, urban planning | Leave a reply

Smuggling Merlin into the Taj

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Ashby's World
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This afternoon I performed my last filial duty and scattered what remained of my father’s ashes at the Taj Mahal in India.

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Posted in India, Life, travel | Tagged ash scattering, change, cremation, Father and son, India, taj mahal | 7 Replies

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