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The monstrous monument to Narendra Modi's ego: As millions suffer in pandemic, India's narcissistic Prime Minister is building a vast folly at a cost that could fund 40 major hospitals. Now his nation is in uproar
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 5, 2021 | David Jones

Posted on 05/06/2021 4:26:55 AM PDT by C19fan

Hidden away in some half-forgotten chambers in the heart of New Delhi, there are two blocks of white sandstone — relics of India's long years under the yoke of the British Raj.

Laid down in 1911 by King George V and Queen Mary, who later reclined on thrones of solid gold, shaded from the blazing sun by golden umbrellas, they are the foundations of the nation's vast and splendiferous seat of government.

It took legions of workers a further 16 years to complete this great acropolis, designed by Surrey-born architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, the centre-piece of which is a circular Parliament House combining classical and Mughal styles.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: india
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India seems to have a self-esteem problem. Many people live without basic infrastructure but the government spends big money on vanity projects.
1 posted on 05/06/2021 4:26:55 AM PDT by C19fan
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Someone is trying to destabilize India.


2 posted on 05/06/2021 4:29:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: C19fan

Epitome of priorities being in the wrong place at the wrong time.....


3 posted on 05/06/2021 4:29:54 AM PDT by cranked
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Vanity Projects = Infrastructure

Ask Biden. Everything is Infrastructure.

As far as the pandemic goes, 5 million Indians need to die in order to match Cuomo’s/De Blasio’s NYC death rate, and they are Hero’s that write books about their leadership/heroism.

Until 5 million Indians are dead, a chinese virus is gonna do, what a chinese virus is gonna do.


4 posted on 05/06/2021 4:34:36 AM PDT by UNGN
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Someone is trying to destabilize India.

That “someone” would be China


5 posted on 05/06/2021 4:37:33 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: mewzilla

I agree China is doing this. Modi is doing a fine job. But China will continue to reinfect India.


6 posted on 05/06/2021 4:41:07 AM PDT by poinq
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India seems to have a self-esteem problem.

How do you know? The article is in a British rag and was written by someone named Jones.

7 posted on 05/06/2021 4:41:27 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Flick Lives; poinq

As we can see, the ChiComs have a lot of help.


8 posted on 05/06/2021 4:42:21 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla

https://www.hindustantimes.com/

Scroll for the latest WuFlu stats.

In a country with almost 1.4 billion people.

India has its problems.

WuFlu is the least of them.


9 posted on 05/06/2021 4:43:55 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: C19fan

That’s okay. “Conservative” Mike Lee will give them all jobs in America.


10 posted on 05/06/2021 4:46:10 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY
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“ India has its problems.

WuFlu is the least of them.”

We went to a local Indian restaurant last night. My girlfriend asked if the China virus was as bad there now as we hear. She said it was.


11 posted on 05/06/2021 5:15:56 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Make no mistake Modi’s domestic political enemies are assisting the ChiComs in spreading the WuFlu all over India. Whenever I hear one of the sheeple here say that the worst is over, and life can go back to normal, I shake my head knowing that the ChiComs can and will release the WuFlu at will with Democrat assistance.


12 posted on 05/06/2021 5:32:55 AM PDT by dowcaet
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Our CIO is from India. He says it’s worse then we are being told. But he believes it has more to do with the lack of basic sanitation than anything else.

L


13 posted on 05/06/2021 5:37:25 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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My take:

India does not have the ability to gather data and get a handle on disease like America and even Europe. The population is too great and public health reporting in the vastly populated cities is marginal.

The recent surge is somehow related to reporting previously lacking


14 posted on 05/06/2021 5:38:54 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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My take:

India does not have the ability to gather data and get a handle on disease like America and even Europe. The population is too great and public health reporting in the vastly populated cities is marginal.

The recent surge is somehow related to reporting previously lacking


15 posted on 05/06/2021 5:38:54 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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“bad”? That is a relative term. Like the poster said above, India would need 5 million deaths from covid to equal NY city death rate. Currently it is 1/20th of 5 million.

In Sanskrit literature there is a saying, a fool sees faults in others as small as a sesame seed, but can not see faults as big as a pumpkin in himself.


16 posted on 05/06/2021 5:48:46 AM PDT by entropy12
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While in USA....
Chlamydia - 1.8 million cases, up 19% from 2015
Gonorrhea - 616,392 cases, up 56% from 2015
Syphilis - 129,813 cases, up 74% from 2015
Congenital syphilis - 1,870 cases, up 279% from 2015


17 posted on 05/06/2021 5:52:36 AM PDT by entropy12
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https://www.poz.com/article/sexually-transmitted-infections-reach-record-high-6th-year-row


18 posted on 05/06/2021 5:53:52 AM PDT by entropy12
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India seems to have a self-esteem problem. Many people live without basic infrastructure but the government spends big money on vanity projects.

I'd imagine the Indians could say far worse about Biden's plans for spending on "infrastructure". We're no longer in a position to sneer at any other country's spending.
19 posted on 05/06/2021 6:55:28 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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The “journalists” purpose of the article to their mostly western audience? THAT is the references to and comparisons with Trump, tying what they don’t like about Modi as examples they want to paint an image of as being “like” Trump.


20 posted on 05/06/2021 7:13:40 AM PDT by Wuli ("")
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