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Delhi's historical stories have been brought to the pages of several coffee-table books, the latest being Shahjahanabad: Mapping a Mughal City by Swapna Liddle

Delhi's historical stories have been brought to the pages of several coffee-table books, the latest being Shahjahanabad: Mapping a Mughal City by Swapna Liddle
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An old obsession

An old obsession
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By Gopalkrishna Gandhi
“‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’/ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay/ Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/ The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Shelley’s sonnet about the futility of what may be called ‘stone-ego’ has not deterred the mighty from building, rebuilding, demolishing, raising on the debris of what has fallen. Only to find their place taken by a successor debris, a successor hubris.
Some have done it with great taste and their creations have survived. Like the magnificent Brihadisvara temple at Tanjore, the Sun temple at Konarak, the group of monuments at Hampi, the imposing forts at Gwalior, Jaisalmer, Mehrangarh, Golconda, Sinhagarh, the exquisite one at Orchha, the dreamy Peri Mahal of Dara Shukoh overlooking the Dal Lake in Srinagar and, of course, Shah Jehan’s Taj Mahal. ....

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