Taj Palace hotel reopening in Mumbai: Fortress for a week, landmark forever

No end of aesthetic appeal can disguise the fact that buildings are eventually dead blocks of concrete contrived with embellishments. Then again, once in maybe a hundred years, there?s this one structure that endures and rises over a crisis so deliberately destructive that it's impossible to gaze into its recesses without thinking that, impossibly, there is a spirit holding it together, transcending violence, emotional turbulence and multiple generations. The old wing of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai ticks all these boxes, having filled its space with the most contrasting of memories, all of which endear it to the city it sits in and, we know now, protects. read more

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