Friday, September 15, 2006
Willful neglect of Taj Mahal
12 February, 1997
The Editor
The Sunday Observer
Mumbai
Apropos your article ‘Stripping the Taj’ (Sunday Observer, Feb. 9). It is indeed shocking that a monument which ranks among the wonders of the world should be so sadly neglected in its own country. At a time when Government is inviting private enterprise for the maintenance of our monuments, the negligence on the part of ASI, and its active connivance in piecemeal destruction of the Taj Mahal is all the more deplorable. Are the authorities waiting to do a Babri Masjid on the Taj? This willful neglect must be stopped immediately, and the officers concerned punished severely, not only for the murder of a most beautiful expression of composite architecture and culture of India, but also for an affront to public feelings regarding a tribute to the noble sentiment of Love.
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The Editor
The Sunday Observer
Mumbai
Apropos your article ‘Stripping the Taj’ (Sunday Observer, Feb. 9). It is indeed shocking that a monument which ranks among the wonders of the world should be so sadly neglected in its own country. At a time when Government is inviting private enterprise for the maintenance of our monuments, the negligence on the part of ASI, and its active connivance in piecemeal destruction of the Taj Mahal is all the more deplorable. Are the authorities waiting to do a Babri Masjid on the Taj? This willful neglect must be stopped immediately, and the officers concerned punished severely, not only for the murder of a most beautiful expression of composite architecture and culture of India, but also for an affront to public feelings regarding a tribute to the noble sentiment of Love.
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