Posted on 12/24/2016 10:26:02 AM PST by nickcarraway
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone for a massive memorial of a medieval warrior king that is expected to cost billions of rupees and has sparked criticism from environmental activists and others.
The memorial includes a proposed 192-metre-tall statue of Shivaji, a 16th-century ruler from western India. Once complete, the statue will be more than twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.
The memorial will be built 3.5 kilometres off Mumbai's southern coast, on land reclaimed from the Arabian Sea.
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Considering India’s pollution problems they aren’t fooling anyone with the windmills.
He fought Muslim rulers. Good man. Put the statue up already.
I love India, and her people, but they need to focus on building things like sewage plants instead of statues.
What a waste.
And when the next idiot comes into power, those monuments are often torn down.
Of course there’s real wealth there. There are wealthy people in every country.
Poverty
Main article: Poverty in India
Despite impressive economic growth during recent decades, India continues to face socio-economic challenges.
In 2006, India contained the largest number of people living below the World Bank’s international poverty line of US$1.25 per day, the proportion having decreased from 60% in 1981 to 42% in 2005, and 25% in 2011.
30.7% of India’s children under the age of five are underweight. According to a Food and Agriculture Organization report in 2015, 15% of Indian population is undernourished.
The Mid-Day Meal Scheme attempts to lower these rates. Since 1991, economic inequality between India’s states has consistently grown: the per-capita net state domestic product of the richest states in 2007 was 3.2 times that of the poorest.
Corruption in India is perceived to have increased significantly, with one report estimating the illegal capital flows since independence to be US$462 billion.
India has the highest number of people living in conditions of slavery, 18 million, most of whom are in bonded labour.
India has the largest number of child labourers under the age of 14 in the world with an estimated 12.6 million children engaged in hazardous occupations.
Source of post #27: Wikipedia
Some of the richest people I’ve known were from India.
And so...what? Say India refrains from building this monument - do you think they should spend the money on welfare programs? India’s poverty problem will have to be resolved by a growing economy, and their economy is growing - fastest growing economy in the world currently, according to a quick Google check.
I agree...my wife is from Chennai... ive been all over india...you definitely see major poverty but also extreme wealth...
In their culture maybe they think “cleanliness” is overrated. Be sensitive...it is Christmas!
Per the Wikipedia on this dude: “Shivaji’s contemporary, the poet Kavi Bhushan stated: Had not there been Shivaji, Kashi would have lost its culture, Mathura would have been turned into a mosque and all would have been circumcised.”
Methinks this statue may be a message to some of the bad actors in the neighborhood, particularly those to the immediate north and nearby west.
LACK of cleanliness breeds disease. No reason to be "sensitive" about lack of cleanliness and the ensuing diseases that develop.
I always thought it odd that the JAPANESE, who came from the Chinese, were/are the ANTITHESIS of the Chinese. I'm not talking personal cleanliness. I am talking about the filth of Chinese places not kept clean, open sewers, human sewage used to fertilize food plants...which is still done.
Yes, it's Christmas. I DO value the Chinese because they DO produce beautiful things. Any culture that can produce SUCH beauty is to be admired...and I admire the Chinese ability to produce beauty: silk, paintings, jewelry and so on.
It's just their lack of cleanliness that is deplorable in this day and age. There is NO excuse. It is shameful because it is 100% preventable...just CLEAN the darn place up every night after closing.
Ya know what I mean, jellybean?
Man does not lie by bread alone.
“Many, if not most, of the population gets water by drinking it straight from the sewers (for example).” — err.. no.
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