ponedjeljak, 14.02.2022.
The photograph may show up the blemishes
To get to his tomb one passes through the slum of Delhi’s Nizammudin named after the shrine of Sufi saint Nizammudin Auliya. I wonder, without casting any aspersions on her grace and beauty, if the Duchess of Cambridge knows about this method of glowing. The Mughal pavilions and the waterways in this national monument were falling apart and had been crudely patched with cement.Her son Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his wife Kate probably don’t share the conspiracy murder theory as they endorsed the tragic legend by sitting on the same bench together on their visit to the Taj this year and being photographed there as a tribute to Diana.K. The gunk from these drains is, according to environmental activist D. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is, of course, cleaning off the faeces where they are on the surface, but the infestation goes deeper. On making enquiries I have been told that there is resistance from the local population and from the Muslim trusts controlling these historical sites to cleaning them up. Having expected to be marvelling at well-maintained historical beauty, we were shocked. He even assigned a whole ministry to the task, under a personage with a reputation for the rabid advocacy of Hindutva and so, presumably, a devotion to the river as a revered goddess. He commissioned a garish statue of Dodi and Diana, placed in a stairway of Harrods with a caption claiming that the lovers were murdered by the British establishment. To get to that revered shrine one has to pass through several corridors with dingy stalls selling cheap jewellery, pirated CDs and goat curry. She said we should leave. Apart from mudpacks, the solution to the bug-faeces problem is obvious. In Britain very few people know who Mumtaz was. The photograph may show up the blemishes in the Duchess’ makeup, but conceals the detail of any negative nuance in the framing monument. Mr Bhatnagar claims this is a cleansing technique copied from a cosmetic treatment used by Indian women through the ages to restore a natural glow to their features and bodies. Manoj Bhatnagar of the ASI’s chemical department says that his teams are applying mudpacks of Fuller’s earth, a type of lime-rich clay, and then washing them off 24 hours later. In Sussex, the British National Trust maintains "Bateman’s", the house that Rudyard Kipling lived in, with his study, the artefacts he and his father brought back from India and his hand-written manuscripts in perfect condition. Contrast that with the fate of poor Ghalib. Not so the other historical sites I visited recently Wholesale garden pond water pump for sale in Delhi. It has become the most famous mausoleum in the world, treated as the architectural icon of love and loss. I expect the project is going well, but will check with my environmentalist friends who keep an eye on these things and make assessments of the ratio between achievement and propaganda. The image of the Taj in the British mind will be associated with another princess and her story. It is reported that Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh’s chief minister, has ordered immediate action to save the Taj. A little determination from the Modi government, dedicated to cleaning up Mother Ganga, should be applied to these monuments too. Watch this space. So also Keats’ house or that in which Shakespeare’s wife lived. At the time the first BJP government was in power.
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