A Rose by any Other Name It's a common and sometime annoying habit for people to refer to grand places by comparing them with even grander ones. Think of how many different cities have been lauded as 'the Venice of the North or Scotland or Belgium' and so on just by dint of having some canals. Sometimes the comparisons are obvious and would come to mind without prompting and sometimes they are a little more tenuous. Since India is filled with grand mausoleums dating to the time of the Mughal rulers, I consider that the shorthand used for the Bibi Ka Maqbara in Aurangabad which is much more ...
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