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Article: The Taj connection.
- Article from:
- Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)
- Article date:
- January 4, 2009
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Byline: Anirban Choudhury
Jan. 4--DHAKA -- Didn't Karl Marx say something about history repeating itself, once as tragedy and then as farce? It applies perfectly to Ahsanullah Moni's Taj Mahal -- a replica of Shah Jahan's original -- that has come up in Sonargaon, 30 kilometres from Dhaka. Moni, a filmmaker and businessman, says he fell in love with the Taj Mahal the first time he saw it in 1980, and ever since wanted to replicate it back home so that poor Bangladeshis who couldn't travel to Agra could experience it too. Moni's got structural engineers, Indians among them, to survey the original structure so that a proper "life-size replica" could be ...