A date with the Taj

General Than Shwe runs the regressive military junta in Myanmar and is primarily responsible for placing Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung Suu Kyi under lengthy house arrest.

The dictator and his wife Naung Thihashwe don't get many invitations to travel abroad these days -- Myanamar is virtually a pariah State because of its lack of democracy and absence of human rights. So you would think the couple would be pleased when they visited the breathtaking Taj.

Do you think they look ecstatic about their encounter with India's poem in marble?

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