Histo-Spark with Pankaj K. Gotte

Hello everyone. I am back. I hope that you have re-thought the crap that you were taught in school, cause I am here with another confused soul.

Ok... take the Taj Mahal....Did you ever wonder what sort of man would build a huge white grave for his wife? Seriously, think about it guys. Which man is ever going to part with that much money to give his wife anything... especially once she's dead... I mean... he's gonna think "good riddance" rather than... "oh... lets build her a huge white grave that will take like a zillion years to build and spend like a zillion bucks on it so that in five hundered years, people can come to look at her decomposed body and think ohhhh how romantic!!!"...

Nope... a man will never do anything that AWESOME for his wife for anything... except one thing...

GUILT!!!!

if a man is guilty, he will do anything to atone his sins... and that is exactly what Shah Jahan did...

Lets start right at the beginning. You see in those days it was rather tough being a woman. It wasnt enough for them that they were covered up at all times AND were living behind screens so that they could never see anything properly... they could not even be in contact with other men... and that is exactly what happened to Mrs. Mumtaj Mughal...

In those days, the women had to be guarded ONLY by eunuchs(that is people of neutral gender, who were actually men with their manhood cut off)... and no man could look at women... only neutered men could.... cause they thought that a neutered man was no longer a man... (oh and btw... even a ball-less man had a higher status than women... )

So anyways... now this woman Mrs. Mughal... she became really attached to one of these Third Gender bodyguards and she started hanging out with him/her more than she did with the king... and the king.. of course.. he managed to get it into his head that his wife was having an affair with this poor old neutral gender (imagine that!!! and he starts to believe that the eunuch is really a man, with tiny doodleberries that shouldn't really count) ...so this is like a MAJOR blow to his over-inflated ego... he then knows why Mrs. Mughal spends sooo much time with him... he at least has some tiny "things" that the king cant offer her (Shahjahan had a erectile dysfunction).... so he thinks to himself... "how do i get revenge???".... and so the stupid emperor decides that since he has three other wives, he might as well get rid of one... so one night, he poisons the food that his wife was eating... (so dramatically bollywood isn’t it??)

So the wife chokes and croaks... and he feels a little better, but the penis of the problem was not rooted out yet... he sent his guards to capture the fucker and root out his penis (literally) and then kill him... but as it turned out... the poor guy HAD lost his doodleberries a long time ago...

The king feels soooo guilty that he decides to leave his kingdom to rot and only wants to atone his sins. Somewhere along the way he gets it into his head that building a gigantic, expensive tomb, at agra would help him overcome his grief(A bottle of Rum would have helped more, but to each his own). And so he builds a grave for her that no one can surpass and that is white in colour like the character of his wife....

Now a story of love, sex and dhoka (not the movie!!) is not a very romantic one... so next time you think Taj Mahal and you think "oh how romantic", think again... you are really just thinking of a grave with a decomposed body of a murdered woman...

By, Pankaj K. Gotte