{eric meola's mind-opening photo of the Taj Mahal. as he says on the pdn/kodak site, the beautiful color is the result of pollution. the full story of the Taj Mahal is as mythic and grand as the actual building. it is in a real sense a memorial to a betrayal, as well as love and loss and inconsolable grief. Sha Jahan left explicit instructions when he died that a corresponding monument be built across the river from the Taj, built from black marble, as a tomb for him, and all the allegorical balance would be there. as it is now, her tomb is huge, his is absent. 'they' decided not to build his. and he was dead, so that was that.}