The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai
Grand seafront hotel of Moorish domes and Florentine arches, an Indian landmark for over a century.
This guide to the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai turns on the night of November 26, 2008, when a young banquet manager named Mallika Jagad found herself on the second floor with thirty Unilever executives as gunfire broke out below and smoke crept under the door. It reaches back to 1903, when industrialist Jamsetji Tata opened the hotel, reportedly after being turned away from a Bombay hotel that admitted only Europeans, and died before seeing it become a landmark. Mallika told her staff the order she would hold to that night: guests first, staff next, herself last. Around four hundred and fifty guests were inside the building when the three-day siege began.
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