India builds world’s tallest statue for $420 million 😐
For calibration:
India’s budget Mars mission cost $73 million
India’s education budget is about $11 billion (or ~25x this statue) if I did my conversion math correctly.
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This is going to sound dumb but why isn’t it a statue of Gandhi
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The whole point is to counterprogtam Gandhi with a right-nationalist icon
the general underwhelmingness of this overwhelming statue does feel like an oddly appropriate monument for contemporary india
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