How air pollution, a dying river and swarms of defecating insects threaten the Taj Mahal
(LA Times Golf)

India´s most famous poet, Rabindranath Tagore, once wrote that the Taj Mahal stood on the banks of the river Yamuna `like a teardrop suspended on the cheek of time.` One wonders whether the late Nobel laureate could have found a lyrical description of the latest threat facing the grand, white-marble...