If you zoom in on the photo of the woman shown in the picture, you will see a huge diamond worn around her neck. This is a 254 carat Jubilee Diamond which is equal in size and weight to the world famous 'KOHENOOR' diamond.
This woman is Meherbai Tata who was the daughter-in-law of Jamshedji Tata and the wife of his eldest son Sir Dorabji Tata.
In the year, 1924, when there was a recession due to the First World War and Tata Company did not have the money to pay salaries to the employees.Then Meherbai had mortgaged her priceless Jubilee Diamond in Imperial Bank for Rs 1 crore, so that the employees get regular salaries and the company continues to run.
After his untimely death from blood cancer, Sir Dorabji Tata established the Tata Memorial Cancer Research Foundation by selling this diamond for better treatment of cancer patients in India.
This monument built for love is a gift to HUMANITY. Look at the irony, we keep glorifying Taj Mahal as a monument of love and don't even know about the history of the one, who gives us life.
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