Uh....yeah. This....thing looks like something built by a bunch of homeless folks, using crates and other crap they scrounged off the streets.
The guy spent enough money to build another Palace of Versailles, but he let his "elite" architects sell him on this monstrosity instead?
Wow. Words fail.
I think your missing the point. Mumbai is a very poor city with a large amount of very, very rich people. All things said, it is easier for a rich American to show off their wealth, then a rich Indian. The building is designed to look ugly.
I know a lot of people don’t really consider India as being eastern but it is, on a very fundamental level. An old Indian saying is—One should not show his diamonds to a greengrocer.
If you observe this building amongst all the other buildings it is located near—you will not see a very big difference. And that’s the point.
I think that’s what confuses westerners the most, everybody keeps saying India is getting wealthier, but unlike china, they don’t see it reflected in the cities or infrastructure.
That’s because its all on the inside. If it was on the outside—a lot of interesting magicians would appear out of nowhere and disappear with everything of value, with the local police appearing not to have seen anything more than an interesting trick.