The Taj Mahal

The first time i visited Taj Mahal was in 1997. I was a fledgling journalist and was lucky to be sent to cover the Yanni concert at Agra. The concert was on the banks of the Yamuna with the Taj Mahal as the backdrop. It was a major musical event of the year especially since it raked up a lot of controversy. This was the first time something of such a large scale was being done near the Taj Mahal. I was not impressed at all when i went to see Taj Mahal on the morning of the concert. It did not live upto my expectations of it. But i realise the more i visit the monument the more i begin to appreciate its beauty, its scale, its architecture and its metaphotic importance. In the october of 2006 i was in Agra and on my 4th visit to the Taj Mahal. And this time more spellbound by it than ever. I shot the monument for two consequent days. I went across the Yamuna and shot it from the banks of Yamuna where i sat one evening over 9 years ago among the glitterati listining to the strains of Yanni's music with Taj Mahal standing out as a silhouette against the sky.