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New Delhi: During Operation Sindoor, the United States which had received intelligence suggesting that India had launched BrahMos cruise missiles to strike targets inside...
Saw this article just today. Interesting! By organizing workshops for elite bureaucrats, the government basically wants them to “supply” tourists for the spot when they join their influential postings. Otherwise, who doesn’t know about, and is sufficiently impressed with Sardar Patel? Why hold workshops at the statue for those who are many notches more intelligent and more up to date with GK than most Indians? But if the government wants to prevent it from becoming a zero-tourist spot, it’s a noble thought in a way: we owe Sardar Patel too much to let him stand so tall and feel so alone. That the man who conceived the idea for the statue wasn’t sensitive to such a possibility speaks something for that man and his unbridled urge to sate his ego.
Saw this article just today. Interesting! By organizing workshops for elite bureaucrats, the government basically wants them to “supply” tourists for the spot when they join their influential postings. Otherwise, who doesn’t know about, and is sufficiently impressed with Sardar Patel? Why hold workshops at the statue for those who are many notches more intelligent and more up to date with GK than most Indians? But if the government wants to prevent it from becoming a zero-tourist spot, it’s a noble thought in a way: we owe Sardar Patel too much to let him stand so tall and feel so alone. That the man who conceived the idea for the statue wasn’t sensitive to such a possibility speaks something for that man and his unbridled urge to sate his ego.