Heritage conversationist Amita Baig in conversation with research scholar Sarthak Malhotra on how the monument's fame has eclipsed the living spaces and residential areas around it.

Amita Baig is a Heritage Management Consultant presently consulting The World Monuments Fund in India, the Namgyal Institute for Research on Ladakhi Art and Culture, UNESCO, the Taj Mahal Conservation Collaborative and Founder Trustee of the Jaisalmer Heritage Fund.

Sarthak Malhotra is a PhD research student in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, whose work focuses on heritage, environment, archaeology, and religion in Agra, with particular attention to the Taj Mahal.

The Mute Eloquence of the Taj Mahal, curated by historian Rana Safvi, positions the Taj itself as a ‘speaking’—though ironically silent—agent through a comprehensive visual narrative, with works spanning from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.