July 8, 2007 at 7:57 am (India is my country..)
Well, if something productive has ever come out of these “reality shows” in Indian television- its the Nation’s newly acquired habit of voting..voting for any & everything.Now we seem to be addicted to this democratic right. Although in the past we have voted for lost causes like Abhijeet Sawant, Qazi Tauqeer, Debojit or the likes, this time around we have outdone ourselves and made our country very proud by voting the TAJ into the WONDERous league of 7 wonders.
It was time to rise and be counted on the world stage…and boy did we rise!!
..take a moment
..Feel proud
For over 350 years of its existence this bewitching symbol of love has inspired millions of those in love and served as a favored subject for poets and globetrotters from world over to author about.
Congratulations TAJ…Congratulations fellow Countrymen…Well done!
Quotes Unquotes
Sir Edwin Arnold (Eminent Poet)
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.
Rabindranath Tagore (Noble laureate)
A teardrop on the cheek of time.
Salman Rushdie (Writer)
India’s Taj Mahal must be seen to remind us that the world is real, that the sound is truer than the echo, the original more forceful than its image in a mirror.
Bill Clinton (Ex US President)
World is divided between those who have seen the Taj (Mahal) and those who have not.
Anthony Weller (Writer)
Several points about the Taj Mahal that astonished me: … How big it is … How clean it is … How symmetrical it is … How much it matches all its photographs.
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July 6, 2007 at 8:07 am (Take Light..)
When Sampras hung up his racket, I was one of the million tennis fans who were dejected, and out of loyalty and respect towards this all time great, believed that there will never be a player this supreme. In hindsight I think, I couldn’t have been more presumptuous.
Little did I know that a Swiss lad called Roger Federer had already arrived and chosen that very moment to catapult himself into greatness as soon as the throne was vacated by his legendary ‘Hall of Famer” predecessor. Not even halfway through in his career and 10 Grand Slam wins later, he is already hailed as not just the champion of open era or the classical era but of all times!
His dominance of the sport in the last 3-4 of years has been such that his contemporaries( the likes of Andy “Scud” Roddick, Rafael “Superman”Nadal) have been relegated to the status of “ordinary mortals”.
I read somewhere in the news papers that now going into the Wimbledon 2007, the fight is not for the top rank but for 2nd rank between Raffa , The Scud and few others. None of them is even thinking of challenging the FEDEX for top honours.. that too on grass? He has been ranked 1 from 2004-2006/7, good 2000 points clear from his closest competitor Nadal.
Federer with his unrelenting disdain has made his opponents realise that any effort to evict him from Numero Uno position any time in the near future is like trying to evict god himself from heaven. So, I guess the others are just content fighting it out among themselves to be the one to lose against him in any final and become the new number two. Right now Number one is too distant and taboo for them.
So challengers may come, challengers may go, but the champion remains!
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