The trouble with the Taj Mahal is that it has become so overlaid with accumulated meanings as to be almost impossible to see. A billion chocolate-box images and tourist guidebooks order us to ...

6 min read "The Taj ... of the Taj Mahal, and one few visitors take advantage of, is the view of it from across the river,” says Divay Gupta, director of programs for the Indian National Trust ...

The Taj Mahal, a renowned global marvel, represents both love and remarkable creativity. However, the presence of locked ...

and only 70 years of formal national history. There were some 22,000 slaves employed in building the Taj Mahal. The folks in Dallas are at the moment having a dispute over renaming Stonewall ...

Throughout history, people have devised elaborate ways to memorialize the dead: the pyramids of Egypt, Europe’s Gothic mausoleums, the Taj Mahal in India. What some mourners consider meaningful ...

Trips will include local naturalist guides and a National Geographic photographer. The 18-day India by Land and River: Taj Mahal, Safaris and the Brahmaputra will visit iconic landmarks and the ...

River cruise vessel Charaidew II will join National Geographic-Lindblad ’s fleet of chartered ships, with two departures in ...