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Article: The perfect paradise: Does such a place exist?
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 8, 1989
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`If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is
here."
"Here" was one of the great halls of the Red Fort in Old Delhi,
where visitors can still see the decorative Persian script of the
17th century illuminating those words over the arches.
The Grand Moghul, Shah Jahan - at whose command the whole
complex of pavilions, palaces, mosques, rose-filled gardens, lotus
pools and waterfalls was built on the edge of the Yamuna River -
might well have thought his lavish court a paradise on earth. If you
go there now, you can hardly help admiring the elegance and delicacy
of the Red Fort's architecture.
But look out from the terraces, and you will see that the Yamuna
has changed ...