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Editor-in-Chief Aroon Purie talks India Today's 'Save the Taj' campaign.

The poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore once described the Taj Mahal as a 'teardrop', glistening 'spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever'. The only tears being shed these days are about the state of the Taj.

To quote from what MC Mehta, a long-time crusader for what is arguably the world's most beautiful building, recently

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