Friday, 20 April 2007

Taj Mahal or Tejo Mahalaya? And other lies perpetrated on the unsuspecting world.

Recently circulating on the internet is a very convincing piece of reasoning (replete, if not flush, with photographic evidence), claiming that the Taj Mahal is really a Hindu building, named Tejo Mahalaya. Here it is:

BBC (?) says about Taj Mahal:
Hidden Truth - Never Say It Is A Tomb

Read text at end of mail.

Aerial view



Interior water well



Frontal view and dome


Closeup of dome with pinnacle


Closeup of pinnacle


Inlaid pinnacle pattern in courtyard


Red lotus at apex of entrance


Rear view of the Taj and 22 apartments


View of sealed doors and windows in back


Typical Vedic style corridors


Music House - a contradiction


Locked room on upper floor


Marble apartment on ground floor


OM in flowers on walls


Staircase leading to lower levels


300-foot corridor inside apartments


One of 22 rooms in secret lower level


Interior of one of 22 secret rooms


Interior of another of locked rooms


Vedic design on ceiling of a locked room


Huge ventilator sealed shut with bricks


Secret walled door that leads to other rooms


Secret bricked door that hides more evidence


Palace in Barhanpur where Mumtaz died


Pavilion where Mumtaz is said to be buried


NOW READ THIS...


No one has ever challenged it except Professor PN Oak, who believes the
whole world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak
says the Taj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz's tomb but an ancient Hindu temple
palace of Lord Shiva (then known as Tejo Mahalaya). In the course of his
research Oak discovered that the Shiva temple palace was usurped by Shah
Jahan from then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh. In his own court ch ronicle,
Badshahnama, Shah Jahan admits that an exceptionally beautiful grand
mansion in Agra was taken from Jai SIngh for Mumtaz's burial. The
ex-Maharaja of Jaipur still retains in his secret collection two orders from
Shah Jahan for surrendering the Taj building. Using captured temples and
mansions, as a burial place for dead courtiers and royalty was a common
practice among Muslim rulers.

For example, Humayun, Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are all buried
in such mansions. Oak's inquiries began with the name of Taj Mahal. He says
the term "
Mahal" has never been used for a building in any Muslim countries
from Afghanisthan to Algeria.
"The unusual explanation that the term Taj
Mahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in atleast two respects.

Firstly, her name was never
Mumtaz Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani," he writes.
Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters 'Mum' from a woman's
name to derive the remainder as the name for the building."Taj Mahal, he
claims, is a corrupt version of
Tejo Mahalaya, or Lord Shiva's Palace. Oak
also says the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale created
by court sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy archaeologists Not a
single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan's time corroborates the love story.

Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the Taj predates
Shah Jahan's era, and was a temple dedicated to Shiva, worshipped by
Rajputs of Agra city. For example, Professor Marvin Miller of New York took
a few samples from the riverside doorway of the Taj. Carbon dating tests
revealed that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan. European
traveler Johan Albert Mandelslo,who visited Agra in 1638 (only seven years
after Mumtaz's death), describes the life of the cit y in his memoirs. But he
makes no reference to the Taj Mahal being built. The writings of Peter
Mundy, an English visitor to Agra within a year of Mumtaz's death, also
suggest the Taj was a noteworthy building well before Shah Jahan's time.

Prof Oak points out a number of design and architectural inconsistencies
that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being a typical Hindu temple
rather than a mausoleum. Many rooms in the Taj ! Mahal have remained
sealed since Shah Jahan's time and are still inaccessible to the public.
Oak asserts they contain a headless statue of Lord Shiva and other objects
commonly used for worship rituals in Hindu temples
Fearing political
backlash, Indira Gandhi's government t ried to have Prof. Oak's book
withdrawn from the bookstores, and threatened the Indian publisher of
the first edition dire consequences . There is only one way to discredit or
validate Oak's research.

The current government should open the sealed rooms of the Taj Mahal
under UN supervision, and let international experts investigate.


Now, if that superb piece is true, then surely the following are as well:

1. Biriyani is not actually a Muslim dish as victims of mass-delusion believe. The name is derived in part from the Hindu invention of a cheap form of cigarette (Biri) and in the other part from the Vedic name for the vagina (yani). The name Biriyani is therefore meant to suggest a rare combination of the extreme pleasures of simultaneous smoking and sex. Canny readers already know that there is no other food in the Muslim cookbook that ends with yani. There could be no more conclusive proof - if more were needed, then the UN should be asked to waste its money by conducting an universal poll to establish this point.

2. Mohammed Ali Jinnah secretly renounced his faith at an early age in a simple ceremony at the friendly Jain-temple next door, in order to be able to wear three-piece suits, eat pork-chops and remain chained to the joys of serial monogamy. Alert readers will have noted that there are no other leaders of the Muslim world who, all at the same time, wear 3-piece Saville Rows (the Shah of Iran, who was also a closet-Jain like Jinnah, only ventured as far as the two pieces), relish pork-chops (the frontrunner in this categoy is the crypto-Hashemite, secretly-Jewish King Abdullah of Jordan who, when dining in full public view at Claridge's in London asks for his ham-steak to be disguised as fine Chateaubriand) and has just one wife (the late Yasser Arafat tried, but gave up what he thought was a losing game when at last count he discovered that he had 743 grandchildren). Ergo - Jinnah, because he did all three, wasn't a Muslim! Therefore the Islamic state of Pakistan is a huge lie and only the political version of a massive optical illusion. One day it shall cease to confuse the clear-sighted (read - Hindus).

3. The reason for which Bob Woolmer's murderer cannot be identified is that the deed was done on the sly and as a personal favour (Question: to who?) by a specialist hangman (area of expertise - hang infidels from ceiling fans and make it look as if they fell on the slippery bathroom floor) last used by General Zia-ul-Haq to do the dirty on Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Nothing else can be revealed until the CIA and Scotland Yard has been fully bribed by General Musharaff when brave, lion-hearted Hindu journalists (of whom Seymour Hersh and Bob Woodward, both having distant 43rd Hindu cousins, are good examples) shall finally solve and expose this mystery.

Saturday, 7 April 2007

Article in the NY Times

An indication of just how important India has become to the US can be found if you look at today's NY Times. The frontpaged photo-captioned story today is about Rahul Gandhi campaigning in the U.P. - which is not even a 'news-event', as it were, but more of a feature-article. Of course, the India-as-the-land-of-princes-and-consequently-snake-charmers motif runs through the story with the words 'heir apparent' and 'dynasty' popping up in the first paragraph itself and Rahul Gandhi referred to as 'Crown Prince' elsewhere in the article. I guess that the fairy-tale-packaging makes the story instantly appealing to American readers, but the analysis is astute enough. Certainly much better than some of our own newspapers who are exclusively and fanatically interested in sound-bytes to the exclusion of anything that a demented fifth-grader would consider sensible, or anything beyond.

Was it what - two years? - ago that this could not be even imagined? Wonder what's next....perhaps looking up the Los Angeles Times to find out whether phuchka sellers are still allowed on the Maidan? Thank God in Heaven, though, that Mamata hasn't made it to any Times except of India yet, though, and here's wishing that some things never happen. We must be allowed to keep our deepest embarassments as our darkest secrets from the rest of the world. Lest all the foreign investment, our only hope-in-hell-to-get-out-of-hell, decamps overnight.

Nothing in the NY Times about China, significantly enough. A prominent article entitled "Radical Pakistani cleric threatens suicide attacks in capital."

Portents of the future or wishful thinking? Time will tell, I guess, although you could try too, by clicking on the 'Post a Comment' link below.