09/16/2026
Fourth in line before dawn, tickets not yet on sale. When the gate opened I ran — past the outer courtyard, through the Jilaukhana, and into the Great Gate itself to get this frame before anyone else reached it. The Taj was still wrapped in river mist, the dome and minarets floating above it, and the dawn sky was doing everything — violet overhead, pink at the horizon, the two meeting somewhere behind the monument.
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