The Taj Mahal in India has been called a poem in stone, a moon-white dream, a tear on the face of humanity.

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On March 20th his latest three-day concert was scheduled to get under way at the Taj Mahal in India, from where it will be beamed by satellite around the world.

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QUIST-ARCTON: There's the Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, Christ the Redeemer - the Statue in Brazil - Machu Picchu in Peru, Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Coliseum in Rome and the Taj Mahal in India.

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Let me just make one point on -- there was a report -- you mentioned the foreign trip -- there was a report going around, I saw on my email before I came out here, that the President was visiting the Taj Mahal in India, despite walking through the schedule yesterday.

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Beyond the 58 properties across India that have been added since the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel opened in Bombay in 1903, the operation owns or manages 17 hotels and resorts in the Maldives, Mauritius, Malaysia, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Australia, plus the U.K., Africa and the Middle East.

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Having started with the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in 1903, the company now runs or manages 59 properties in India and another 17 elsewhere on the globe.

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