It’s a lush life. Beyond the horizon the empire stirs; here we are all dressed up, in extravagant solitude. We’ve come to the north of India. It feels like summer; flat-bottomed boats ply the Yamuna ...

This is a creative image depicting a detail from “The Passing of Shahjahan” by Abanindranath Tagore, c1903, at the centre while along the borders are details from the portraits of women of Nur Jahan, ...

Lisa Cheng is a writer and editor whose wanderlust has taken her from Malaga, Spain to the Upper Irrawaddy in Myanmar. When she’s not covering travel, she’s making dumplings, dabbling in new languages ...

After the death of his beloved wife, Emperor Shah Jahan spared no expense building her grand mausoleum. His obsession became a monument to everlasting love but bankrupted the Mughal empire. Color and ...

The Red Fort Complex was built as the palace fort of Shahjahanabad – the new capital of the fifth Mughal Emperor of India, Shah Jahan. Named for its massive enclosing walls of red sandstone, it is ...

This story originally appeared on Travel + Leisure. For first-time visitors to India, it’s almost impossible to skip the bucket list-worthy Taj Mahal. The mausoleum in Agra is India’s most famous ...