I thought I’d share this one with you in case you missed it. You wouldn’t miss it if you lived nearby!!!
This is the Statue of Unity in India.
It cost $420 million dollars to build.
The people forced to work the land it’s built on, protested because of the poverty and waste.
This is the package that our government is giving to India…
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/profile-of-development-work-india
This pdf suggests that our, I’m writing from England in the United Kingdom of the British Isles, aid package to India is decreasing by quite a lot. In the year 2018 they are given £98 million (Guardian) and this year are due to get £46million.
After their government (Modi, I believe) has spent so much money building a statue when many in his country are without the essentials in life it leaves a sour taste in one’s mouth. You either need the money or you don’t to be frank.
Building statues twice the size of the Statue of Liberty, in a place where people would not generally see them, smacks of someone who does not know how to budget. So, all governments waste something but this guy is a completely different scale. As you can see.
This piece is not about knocking India. Like I say Indians are beautiful. They are suffering from terribly high death toll from covid19 and my heart breaks for how the mismanagement of the basics in their country will have led to the extra deaths. Plus we all saw on social media how the police were enforcing the most severe lockdown seen on the globe…
The main reason for the statue was and is UNITY. Now that the monster is built we should at least talk about it. For me, it is hardly a good looking statue but that could be because I’m not Indian. I’d love to know what others think, especially Indian’s if there are any out there who read this and speak English please drop me a comment or message me privately.
As a tourist attraction is it a hit or a miss?
Curiosity Killed The Cat/Ordinary Day – From the Album Keep Your Distance
Thanks for reading.
