The origin of Taj Mahal
For Shahjahan and Mumtaz it was a love at first sight, when in the year 1607 when Prince Khurram/Shahjahan of the royal Mughal household was strolling down Meena Bazaar, along with the courtiers, he wedged a glance of a girl Arjumand/Mumtaz Mahal glancing at glass beads. But Shahjahan's stepmother Noorjehan wanted Shah Jahan to marry her daughter Ladli Begum from her first marriage. Shah Jahan had great conflict with Empress Noorjehan on this issue, but his revolution against his father Jahangir, in 1622, was fruitless.

Shahjahan, however, ascended the throne on his father's death in 1627. At his juncture he married his dream girl at a time when Princes never married only for love. Other than Mumtaz, Shah Jahan had two wives and out of them Mumtaz was his true love. She gave birth to 14 out of his 16 children. Mumtaz Mahal obsessed immense supremacy authority and self-respect in her etiquette. Until her death, she was Shah Jahan's undividable mate and psychoanalyst.
While breathing her last, Mumtaz Mahal took a promise from her beloved to build an structure in reminiscence of their love. This was the cause of work of a monument that still to draw millions of lovers even today.
The monument environment eventually became Sha Jahan's prison as his son, Aurangzeb, detained the throne and caged his father for the last eight years of his life. Legend maintains that Shah Jahan spent his final years locked in the Agra Fort, gazing from the Jasmine Tower of his marble palace, down the Yamuna River to the Taj Mahal, the tomb of his dearly loved wife.
When Shah Jahan was on his deathbed, his eyes was constantly glancing at Taj Mahal where lied his beloved. After his death, Shah Jahan was buried there beside his dead queen, Mumtaz Mahal. Their love never detached them in life, miseries and ultimately in bereavement. Taj Mahal tantamount with Mumtaz Mahal relics the everlasting gravestone for their never-ending care for each other.
The force behind Infosys
Before returning to India and setting up his company Infosys, its Chairman Mr. Narayanmurthy worked in Bulgeria. He had a very horrific time during his preceding days of staying there. Civil war cropped up there and Mr. Murthy had to proceed to his homeland. The money he possessed was also limited. He somehow caught a train to Paris. In the train journey he got acquainted with a girl and started conversing with her in French.

Thinking that they were talking against communism, the Communist soldiers on the platform seized and put him into jail. When the soldiers were sure that he is in Indian and thus they allowed to him after 48 hours. Two days of hunger and a long walk on the highway to grab hold of some transport to railways, he learnt his lesson of life.
It was at this time that he decided that not communalism but free enterprise with a flexible bend for ill-fated will resolve the predicament and removal of poverty to an extent.
Reality Bytes
- Riding a aeroplane is safer then riding a car or a mule
- Albert Einstein was a below average student in school
- The King of Denmark styles his own hair
- One fifth of the planet Mars is owned by Eric Clapton
- China sent 3 pandas into space in the year 1972.
- In many Southern states of India, four sided graters are considered works of Satan.
- One looses 150 calories per hour if you hit your head against the wall.
- Barbara Millicent Roberts is the name of Barbi doll’s full name
- The tomato is the world's largest selling vegetable/fruit more than apples.
- In India, we have one language for each day, as there are 365 different languages spoken in India.
- Cows don't have upper front teeth
- 48 years after cans were introduced , then the invention of can opener came into being.
- India produces more movies than in Hollywood
- The colour of Coca-Cola was originally green
- Hallmark makes cards for 105 different types of relationships
- Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better
- Men get hiccups more often than woman
- Switzerland attracts the most suicide tourists
- In olden times, iron cost more than gold
- Silver can destroy 650 disease-causing bacteria
- The banana will be extinct in 10 years time
- On his 78th birthday, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee received a card that was over half a mile long and covered 1,470 sheets of paper. In making the card, over 750 pens and 200 bottles of ink were used.
- The words ‘lakh’ and ‘crore’ do not exist in the English language. The two words are only used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and are derivatives of the Hindi words laakh and karod.
- Vinoba Bhave burnt all his certificates in his early life. One day, while sitting with his mother in the kitchen, he burned the certificates , telling his mother that he did not require them, as his direction in life was different. He Gave up his studies in 1916, to join Mahatma Gandhi’s ashram.
- Ekambar Sahu of India allows over 4,000 bats to take refuge in his house every day at sunrise.
- The Golden Paw pets-only hotel in San Diego, California, is sheer heaven for cats. At this hotel, cats can sleep in a deluxe suite overlooking a birdfeeder with an aquarium, a television and an attendant in a rocking chair who will pet the animal.
Shah Rukh earns a smaller amount from movies than endorsements
If tax figures are to be believed, King Khan is a bigger king of the marketing world too.
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A major share of his advance tax money has gone into paying for his income from endorsing a swerve of products and other sources, which is a whopping amount of Rs.270 million. Sources in the advertising agency for which the superstar has worked divulged that his income from endorsements fetches him Rs.1.5 billion ($38 million) a year, the highest for any Indian advertising "model".
Amitabh Bachchan does more endorsement that King Khan, but his annual endorsements do not cross Rs.1.2 billion.
King Khan will continue to hold this position for more years as he has a strong threshold in the Bollywood compared to many others stars as there is no one yet who can opponent his magnetism.
In the current fiscal, his earnings from this source may go a little above Rs.1.5 billion as he has been made brand ambassador of more products - and more are waiting, the sources added. His movie does not fetch him more than 50-60 million per film.
A big large piece of his income from outside Bollywood in the current year also accrued from hosting STAR Plus' "Kaun Banega Crorepati" quiz series for which he received Rs.10 million per episode.
King Khan received a profit of Rs. 400 million on his home production Om Shanthi Om when he sold the right to Eros International for whopping Rs. 750 million whereas his original expenditure was only Rs. 350 million. Rs. 50 million was the fees which he gave himself for working as hero in that movie, which is not included in the profit of accounts.
King Khan does not augment his fees unlike his contenders. It is implicit that he is not avaricious on this part. Even though his latest movie OSO is a super duper hit, he does not intend to increase his fees. That’s the star excellence he has, and that’s why he is victorious.
"Shah Rukh chooses his movies carefully. First, the subject matter must appeal to him and, if it does, his opting to star in the movie would largely depend on the credibility and antecedents of the producer and the director,â€said an executive of the star's production banner, Red Chillies Production.
In disparity, Shah Rukh behaves like a 'star' when he shoots for TV commercials. There he refuses to negotiation on anything, particularly on his price. "Why should I compromise? TV commercials are what they are – commercials, laments the Badshah
"Had the industry not put me in a position where I am today, would the companies have chosen me to be their brand ambassadors?" he asks.
Is King Khan, then, robbing Peter to pay Paul? As one advertising agency executive put it: "He is, but his breaking and entering seem like a communal deal."Â



