Taj Mahal

Is the motif for India on countless tourist posters
and has probably had more camera shutters clicked at
it than any other edifice on the face of this earth.
How easily one forgets that this unequalled monument
of love is in fact a tomb, the burial place of a woman
who suffered 13 times the pain of childbirth and died
in agony at the 14th attempt. Perhaps that makes it
all the more appropriate as a symbol of India - a land
of beauty and grandeur amidst suffering and death.