"tear drop on the cheek of humanity"

Have just got back from a trip . TheTaj Mahal section of  it made me cry - in anger.  I had photographed it a couple of decades ago  for a book.  This return made me rue our terrifying Touristy times  - the damage tourists cause to the places they visit. I am not talking about just the  physical damage the sheer number of  tourists to the Taj cause but also the damage to the the very souls of the people native to those 'Destinations'. Tourism may bring in the money but the  drive to  grab it  reduces the locals to  scamming a service  industry  by becoming servants to the most soul destroying of human professional practices.

The sorrow of my tears is actually a scream at what is happening  to  the land of  what Rabindranath Tagore Called " a tear drop on  the cheek of humanity". The barbed  razor wire security fences surrounding  the exquisite Taj  are a terrifying sign of our times . Of the destruction of our times.