I had seen the Taj Mahal a few times before and knew my school book history of the building and the Mughal dynasty. I had studied them in school but when I took my wife (an Australian) to see it, she asked for the history and I reeled of my school boy knowledge. It failed to satisfy her and she gently mocked my ignorance. Now determined to prove myself, I delved into every Mughal book I found in the New York library. We lived in Manhattan at the time and the New York library is one of the best in the world. All I wanted to do was to give my wife more details of both the Taj Mahal and the Mughal Empire. Which I did. I now had reams of notes, Xerox pages and books piled up on my desk. I was thinking of stuffing the material in a carton and forgetting about it, but instead I began to write my novel Taj.
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Indian novelist Timeri Murari at http://writinghistoricalnovels.com/2013/01/24/writing-the-historical-novel-by-timeri-murari
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