Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

India’s billon-dollar battle to build the world’s biggest statue

India’s billon-dollar battle to build the world’s biggest statue

  • Around one billion dollars is being spent on the two giant effigies, each more than twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty
  • India’s statue politics often fall victim to ‘hard economic reality,’ according to Badra Narayan, a professor at the Pant Social Science Institute
By AFP ·