“Do you realize we haven’t even seen the Taj Mahal? We better go and see it some day soon, before that gets cordoned off too, or taken over or pulled down. This is India,” so says the protagonist of Rukun Advani’s wildly funny but eerily prescient novel about contemporary India, Beethoven Among the Cows (1994). Adityanath had already said that the Taj Mahal was not relevant to Indian culture. Such statements get made, there is some outrage in the media, and the officials explain the move in less controversial terms.

Source: Mint February 07, 2018 18:11 UTC