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India

It has been said that there are two types of people in the world, those who have been to India and those who have not – what is certain is that no one who visits this nation of jungles, temples … Continue reading

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Taj Mahal – Agra, India

Mark Twain called it ‘that soaring bubble of marble.’ For Rudyard Kipling, it was ‘the Ivory Gate through which all good dreams come.’ But for Shah Jahan, the 17th century Mughal Emperor who built the Taj Mahal in Agra, the … Continue reading

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