- Saturday, April 20, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
by Amit Roy MANY people in India seem to be ungrateful to prime minister Narendra Modi who, just months before a general election, has gifted a 597-ft (182 metres) tall statue, costing £330 million, of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, home minister in 1947, to the nation. I once went to the Greek island of Rhodes to do a story on the Colossus of Rhodes, a 106ft statue built in 280 BC, but which crumbled in an earthquake in 226 BC. Some enterprising tourism promoters claimed a large boulder recovered from the sea was a remnant from the original statue. But Prof…
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