As a work of art, I quite like the National Icon Whitewashing & Appropriation Project, or, as some people are calling it, the ‘Statue of Unity’. I like the way the metal has been tricked into soft folds of cloth and crinkly skin, and how it towers all Game of Thrones-y over the landscape, like a visual shout.
Well done. On the other hand I’d also quite like a nice sports car, but you don’t see me forcing everyone in the country to pay for it on the grounds that it’s good for them, do you? The statue of Sardar Vallabhai Patel is made entirely out of ...
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