Example of callousness Sent from my iPhone
> On 03-Mar-2018, at 6:48 AM, Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A man-made island of 130,000 sqm will be created in the Arabian Sea 1.5 km > from the Bombay coastline to erect a statue of Shivaji, a Maratha king who > successfully led a rebellion against the Mughal Empire in the Deccan about > 350 years ago, before being defeated by the British who possessed superior > arms and war technology at the time. > > This statue and its complex is estimated to cost initially about Rs 4,000 > crores or USD 626 million and when completed will be the tallest statue in > the world. > > This comes at a time when thousands of hardy farmers have been committing > suicide in the Vidarbha region, the heart of the state, out of desperation > arising from poverty and indebtedness due to a series of crop failures over > the years. > > Not the first example of Nero fiddling while Rome burns. > > Roland Francis > Toronto. >
