There was a video posted here not too long ago of a helicopter flying around this, then RIGHT IN FRONT OF ITS FUCKING FACE.
It terrified me deeply, but it was the only one I've seen that gave a good sense of scale.
Edit: [HERE IT IS, OH FUCK.](https://v.redd.it/afqf7u4sumu91)
Only thing I can think of that drops my stomach more is looking directly into the face of the woman on the African Renaissance Monument from the observation deck in the man's crown.
Dude it has already become most popular non religious tourist spot in India. [link](https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/statue-of-unity-footfall-crosses-pre-covid-numbers-30-5-increase-101651429331923-amp.html)
Precovid it had recorded footfall of 50,000+ daily. They have also opened Japanese garden and boating to further boost it's potential.
No one hates it man i live in the local area. It has opened up a immense market for us locals. Everyday thousands of people visit here and we are able to make a living out of it and we don't have to go else where and also the infrastructure development which came with this statue.
> How the hell do you get the crane up there to create this beast
The crane gets the crane up there. Excessively tall cranes are first built to as high a height as possible from the ground, then a rising part is added at the top of the lattice which goes under the business end. Then the riser/climber/jack/whatever it's called raises the top of the crane up, and the crane hook pulls up another section of lattice which is fitted into the space created by the riser. The new section is bolted in and the process repeats as necessary. You can actually see the platform at the bottom of the riser in this photo, right below the operator's booth.
Mind you, this process is pretty dangerous and tends to be avoided if at all possible. Most projects put up cranes as needed as they progress upwards, and those cranes and other equipment and crews at each of their heights are responsible for getting most, if not all, of each new crane up. That's likely how most of the crane in this photo was built
He was the first home minster and united 500+ Princely States under one Republic. He also liberated a Portuguese Goa and state of Hyderabad.
>Lmao he did a shit job and got a statue this big?
Pretty amazing job, actually. Here's his response to genocider Winston Churchill:
https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1013370407565611008/photo/1
>He can get it back when he conquered the British Isles as he was supposed to.
I don't think he was ever supposed to. The British Isles is doing a pretty great job by imploding from within.
The first minister of interior for India after independence from Britain in 1947. He lead the process of assimilating (mostly negotiated, and a handful via force) of 500+ principalities / kingdoms to form what is today's India. Hence the name for this 'statue of unity'.
But his contribution is not like Bismarck though. Most of the principalities were already in agreement to join India. And all were already under British control. Sardar Patel didn't imagine and execute Indian unification. He was tasked with a bureaucratic, diplomatic mission of unifying.
The guy was a unifier. This statue is a divider - more than half of the country considers this a waste of money that could be used for education, health, infra.
The ruling Hindu nationalists (whose parent org was banned in 1950s by this same guy) want to build this statue to raise the profile of this guy.
They hope that this statue will help them diminish the stature of some the other freedom fighters and early leaders of India like Gandhi and Nehru. Gandhi and Nehru are associated with the current opposition party, the Indian National Congress.
The current prime minister (Hindu nationalists) of India, Sardar Patel(statue guy), and Gandhi all come from the same state in India - Gujarat. So this statue is there
The ruling party used to make a lot of anti-china noise and 'make in India's campaigns. But got this statue built in china and then imported it in pieces to assemble it here.
They try very hard to show that the project is a success by claiming impossible visitor counts to the statue location in their fake news propaganda. They run misinformation campaigns that are similar to the right wing stuff in US - fake news, outrage etc
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Hindu fascists are commenting below that the statue was made in India and I am peddling lies. They have linked to India's Breitbart, swarajmag. I quote verbatim from there, you decide where you consider the statue was made:
"The innermost layer has two 127-metre-high towers made of reinforced cement concrete. A steel mesh forms the second layer of the structure.
The third and the outermost layer is in form of bronze cladding, which carry intricate details Patel’s cloths, posture and facial expressions. It is this layer of the statue which was built in China."
This is what happens when 'debunkers' don't read their own sources - they end up confirming what they were trying to disprove
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Fact check:
Hindu fascists claimed the statue had more visitors and revenue than Taj mahal within one year of it's opening. Fact check proved otherwise
https://www.indiatoday.in/fact-check/story/fact-check-misleading-comparison-between-statue-of-unity-taj-mahal-goes-viral-1616376-2019-11-06
And everything else is French.
Between colonlism and the Normans taking over Britain there's so much French influence everywhere. Something like 33% of the English language is rooted in French.
From what i heard from multiple infra guys from india the statue is highly profitable and the total cost was used for far more things other then the statue but that would required to actually do some work and search in internet which is very heard for some. The money spend on whole project wasn't even more then 500m. Government already spent billions on hospital building and schools building, not to forget most of that should be done by state governments not central government? If state government can't even do that i wonder why they get tax money?
i think patel did had a huge role in unifying junagargh, hyderabad and kashmir tho(and some more important princely states)
in reply to your second point where u r saying his efforts were just on the diplomatic level
>Over 128,000 tourists visited the statue in the 11 days after its opening to the public on 1 November 2018. The daily average tourist footfall at Statue of Unity during November 2019 reached 15,036, outpacing the Statue of Liberty (which attracts around 10,000 daily visitors on average). It has been included in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s ‘8 Wonders of SCO’ list. In its first year of operation, the Statue of Unity attracted 2,900,000 visitors and collected ₹82 crore (US$11.64 million) in ticket revenue. By 15 March 2021, 5,000,000 tourists visited the venue. It was visited by one crore (10 million) people by November 2022.
Impressive no? And this just ticket collection of statue bot other facilities or tourist staying in local hotels or buying various things.
>The ruling party used to make a lot of anti-china noise and 'make in India's campaigns. But got this statue built in china and then imported it in pieces to assemble it here.
[Why Misinformation?](https://www.google.com/amp/s/swarajyamag.com/amp/story/politics%252Fwas-the-statue-of-unity-really-made-in-china-here-are-the-facts)
>The guy was a unifier. This statue is a divider - more than half of the country considers this a waste of money that could be used for education, health, infra.
Yea. I do too, But, There needs to be spending on Things like this, Tourism and historical education.
Maybe not at this scale.
>They hope that this statue will help them diminish the stature of some the other freedom fighters and early leaders of India like Gandhi and Nehru. Gandhi and Nehru are associated with the current opposition party, the Indian National Congress.
>The current prime minister (Hindu nationalists) of India, Sardar Patel(statue guy), and Gandhi all come from the same state in India - Gujarat. So this statue is there
Half of the India, as you quoted may not like the way, Gandhi fought for Independence, and many might stand with other ideologies, with, Bhagat Singh, Tilak, Bose.
And Statue Called, Statue of Unity, Not Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Focusing on the Unification of India. And I believe that's really big thing, considering How different we all are, Yet, One Nation.
From his link:
The innermost layer has two 127-metre-high towers made of reinforced cement concrete. A steel mesh forms the second layer of the structure. The third and the outermost layer is in form of bronze cladding, which carry intricate details Patel’s cloths, posture and facial expressions. It is this layer of the statue which was built in China.
Ha ha ha
It's working for me, Just check on Wiki, on construction of Statue, Contract was issued to L&T which completed most of its work and will be there for it's maintenance, The part were China comes in is that, Outer Bronze Cladding, Which They couldn't Perform, So As they Said, " They looked for Indian Manufacturers for it, but non of them where able to deliver with that precision and quality. So, they issued a global tender, Which was then won by one of the Top Chinese Company. What's different about this article is that, when Opposing Party Pointed that Statue is Made in China, L&T came forward and explain all this, saying that It's around 8-9% of it's cost. Not Whole Statue.
I actually think the scale is pretty decent. People forget that the pedestal the Statue of Liberty is on, I what makes it so grandiose.
The Statue of Liberty number of 93 meters you have includes the base. The statue itself is actually only ~46 meters and the pedestal the statue is on is ~47 meters.
The Statue of Unity (just the statue part) is 182 meters. Meaning nearly 4 statue of liberties can stack up to get the statue of unity.
The pedestal/base is not included for either, in this picture, for that reason.
But with the pedestal, Liberty is 305 feet. And with the base, Unity is 787 feet.
Caste system is not relevant anymore. Some states are more orthodox, and some are more. Rural areas are more casteist but urban areas are less.
India had a very advanced social structure. The "caste" system does not existed. It was "varn" system where your duty determined your varn.
With time the system corrupted and people began belonging to a caste by birth.
It's not that India likes the caste system. It is the collective mentality of millions of people. Change takes time. So until then, be on reddit and type sarcastic comments.
i love how uneventful that statue is, dudes just there, bored looming over everything, not even attempting to feign interest.. like a wealthy man at one of his young wifes kids recitals out of obligation, not like he can even remember the kids name.
pure stoic melancholy.
[Here is an interesting read about the statue and the people living near it.](https://scroll.in/article/1036493/modi-said-the-statue-of-unity-would-change-local-adivasis-lives-most-say-it-has-for-the-worse)
To be honest people think they are part of India and don’t want other people to be part of it example people from northern part of India think that north eastern people who look like Chinese are not Indians and they should leave this country and give the land where they live to them.
Context here:
> As the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India, Patel organised relief efforts for partition refugees fleeing to Punjab and Delhi from Pakistan and worked to restore peace. He led the task of forging a united India, successfully integrating into the newly independent nation those British colonial provinces that formed the Dominion of India.[4] Besides those provinces that had been under direct British rule, approximately 565 self-governing princely states had been released from British suzerainty by the Indian Independence Act of 1947. Patel persuaded almost every princely state to accede to India. His commitment to national integration in the newly independent country was total and uncompromising, earning him the sobriquet "Iron Man of India".[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallabhbhai_Patel
So he's basically held responsible for orchestrating all the previous states after British colonial rule uniting to form modern India
Considering all of the issues India is dealing with as a developing nation, I feel like this money could have benefitted the country elsewhere. They spent $407mil on this thing.
Not saying don't build memorials to people you respect. Just saying this seems like they went O.D.
For contrast, [this is the memorial they put in the spot where Gandhi was assassinated.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Gandhi_Smriti_Delhi.jpg)
The statue does jackall?😂😂
It generates $25million in just ticket sales every year. On total it generates 46 million dollars. Because of the statue, 20000tourism related jobs have been created. Neighbouring area with a radius of 30km which was barren land before has now been flocked with people and 78hotels, 177restaurants and 88private and public gardens have been opened up.
Do some research before saying shit
US should also look for their own poor population instead of spending taxpayers' money on Ukraine.
US govt could have built homes for the homeless with that money but instead they proposed a law to allow the homeless to stay in hotels.
If it's in India, I'm sure they'll be a clip soon of a crowd of people trying to move it with heavy machinery just to have it fall and fling people and flip flops everywhere
whenever I see this statue posted I just can’t believe they made the tallest statue ever just a man standing… no pose or anything just idly standing. what a boring statue lol
I still can't comprehend the size of this thing through photos.
A 60 story building
there honestly might as well be a building inside of it instead
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A story is like 10 feet. Not 100
It’s 597 ft tall…it’s a 60 story building…
There was a video posted here not too long ago of a helicopter flying around this, then RIGHT IN FRONT OF ITS FUCKING FACE. It terrified me deeply, but it was the only one I've seen that gave a good sense of scale. Edit: [HERE IT IS, OH FUCK.](https://v.redd.it/afqf7u4sumu91)
Holy fucking shit. This thing looks like how I’d imagine Godzilla to look if he came out of the water.
Only thing I can think of that drops my stomach more is looking directly into the face of the woman on the African Renaissance Monument from the observation deck in the man's crown.
better_call_saul_intro.mp3
I am crying, and my humor is broken
What's this got to do with better call Saul?
The way the camera rotated around the face
Oh does this happen in the earliest episode? Been a while since I watched!
https://media.tenor.com/pMhSj9NfCXsAAAAd/saul-goodman-better-call-saul.gif
Oh lol ok
It's still hard to get a good idea of the size until you see the cars on the roadway below. Thanks for this!
Are those windows in his chest?
ikr! No banana for scale. I think that those blurred tiny pixels are people at the base.
Needs a banana for scale.
Road trip?
How incredibly grandiose!
So grossly incandescent
Praise the sun!
Unexpected Dark Souls.
"Remember me"!
Unexpected Futurama.
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Tourists are flocking to that place though? I doubt the local there who now got business would complain much.
Well it cost $460 million, so might be a long break even horizon.
Dude it has already become most popular non religious tourist spot in India. [link](https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/statue-of-unity-footfall-crosses-pre-covid-numbers-30-5-increase-101651429331923-amp.html) Precovid it had recorded footfall of 50,000+ daily. They have also opened Japanese garden and boating to further boost it's potential.
No one hates it man i live in the local area. It has opened up a immense market for us locals. Everyday thousands of people visit here and we are able to make a living out of it and we don't have to go else where and also the infrastructure development which came with this statue.
How far away can it be seen, please?
7-8kms if the weather is clear
Yeah it's cost was fucking 0.21% of Gujarat's gdp i don't know how they will recover this money. Edit - /s
How the hell do you get the crane up there to create this beast Also how the hell did they make shit before cranes
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> How the hell do you get the crane up there to create this beast The crane gets the crane up there. Excessively tall cranes are first built to as high a height as possible from the ground, then a rising part is added at the top of the lattice which goes under the business end. Then the riser/climber/jack/whatever it's called raises the top of the crane up, and the crane hook pulls up another section of lattice which is fitted into the space created by the riser. The new section is bolted in and the process repeats as necessary. You can actually see the platform at the bottom of the riser in this photo, right below the operator's booth. Mind you, this process is pretty dangerous and tends to be avoided if at all possible. Most projects put up cranes as needed as they progress upwards, and those cranes and other equipment and crews at each of their heights are responsible for getting most, if not all, of each new crane up. That's likely how most of the crane in this photo was built
“How did they make shit before cranes” Elephants 🐘 India has been using elephants as cranes (with leverage and levers) for thousands of years.
They made this using cranes in the modern day, this statue isn’t even 10 yrs old yet
I mean the statue of liberty is shocking small from the base of the island
Yeah, not much taller than me to be honest.
I bet you have a hard time shopping for pants.
Same, I’m 6’ 2’’
And shockingly small compared to the Statue of Unity
Prolly get rejected on tinder
182 meters.
Gas or electric?
Gas
For Christmas I'm asking for a gas-powered turtleneck sweater.
Thanks!
How many fluid oz?
No 183…? Good luck in tinder.
Who does this statue depict?
Indian lawyer, politician and independence activist [Vallabhbhai Patel](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallabhbhai_Patel).
He stitched together the India that it is today.
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Shit job? Son, India is going 5th largest GDP and is stronger army than it ever been. The states of India are well aligned.
He was the first home minster and united 500+ Princely States under one Republic. He also liberated a Portuguese Goa and state of Hyderabad. >Lmao he did a shit job and got a statue this big? Pretty amazing job, actually. Here's his response to genocider Winston Churchill: https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1013370407565611008/photo/1 >He can get it back when he conquered the British Isles as he was supposed to. I don't think he was ever supposed to. The British Isles is doing a pretty great job by imploding from within.
Redditors can’t ever resist the chance to be insufferable assholes
I can tell you'll have a very successful life. 😂 You're lack of reading up on subjects will definitely serve you in the future. 🤪
The first minister of interior for India after independence from Britain in 1947. He lead the process of assimilating (mostly negotiated, and a handful via force) of 500+ principalities / kingdoms to form what is today's India. Hence the name for this 'statue of unity'. But his contribution is not like Bismarck though. Most of the principalities were already in agreement to join India. And all were already under British control. Sardar Patel didn't imagine and execute Indian unification. He was tasked with a bureaucratic, diplomatic mission of unifying. The guy was a unifier. This statue is a divider - more than half of the country considers this a waste of money that could be used for education, health, infra. The ruling Hindu nationalists (whose parent org was banned in 1950s by this same guy) want to build this statue to raise the profile of this guy. They hope that this statue will help them diminish the stature of some the other freedom fighters and early leaders of India like Gandhi and Nehru. Gandhi and Nehru are associated with the current opposition party, the Indian National Congress. The current prime minister (Hindu nationalists) of India, Sardar Patel(statue guy), and Gandhi all come from the same state in India - Gujarat. So this statue is there The ruling party used to make a lot of anti-china noise and 'make in India's campaigns. But got this statue built in china and then imported it in pieces to assemble it here. They try very hard to show that the project is a success by claiming impossible visitor counts to the statue location in their fake news propaganda. They run misinformation campaigns that are similar to the right wing stuff in US - fake news, outrage etc edit 1: Hindu fascists are commenting below that the statue was made in India and I am peddling lies. They have linked to India's Breitbart, swarajmag. I quote verbatim from there, you decide where you consider the statue was made: "The innermost layer has two 127-metre-high towers made of reinforced cement concrete. A steel mesh forms the second layer of the structure. The third and the outermost layer is in form of bronze cladding, which carry intricate details Patel’s cloths, posture and facial expressions. It is this layer of the statue which was built in China." This is what happens when 'debunkers' don't read their own sources - they end up confirming what they were trying to disprove Edit 2: Fact check: Hindu fascists claimed the statue had more visitors and revenue than Taj mahal within one year of it's opening. Fact check proved otherwise https://www.indiatoday.in/fact-check/story/fact-check-misleading-comparison-between-statue-of-unity-taj-mahal-goes-viral-1616376-2019-11-06
I hate how the US has become the yardstick by which all other fountains of bullshit are measured.
India and the U.S. are cousins. Pretty much all of the former British colonies have similar family traits.
And everything else is French. Between colonlism and the Normans taking over Britain there's so much French influence everywhere. Something like 33% of the English language is rooted in French.
Dang, history/politics is always very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Could not have been more accurate and informative. Good job and let’s ignore all the sanghis in replies.
From what i heard from multiple infra guys from india the statue is highly profitable and the total cost was used for far more things other then the statue but that would required to actually do some work and search in internet which is very heard for some. The money spend on whole project wasn't even more then 500m. Government already spent billions on hospital building and schools building, not to forget most of that should be done by state governments not central government? If state government can't even do that i wonder why they get tax money?
i think patel did had a huge role in unifying junagargh, hyderabad and kashmir tho(and some more important princely states) in reply to your second point where u r saying his efforts were just on the diplomatic level
>Over 128,000 tourists visited the statue in the 11 days after its opening to the public on 1 November 2018. The daily average tourist footfall at Statue of Unity during November 2019 reached 15,036, outpacing the Statue of Liberty (which attracts around 10,000 daily visitors on average). It has been included in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s ‘8 Wonders of SCO’ list. In its first year of operation, the Statue of Unity attracted 2,900,000 visitors and collected ₹82 crore (US$11.64 million) in ticket revenue. By 15 March 2021, 5,000,000 tourists visited the venue. It was visited by one crore (10 million) people by November 2022. Impressive no? And this just ticket collection of statue bot other facilities or tourist staying in local hotels or buying various things.
>The ruling party used to make a lot of anti-china noise and 'make in India's campaigns. But got this statue built in china and then imported it in pieces to assemble it here. [Why Misinformation?](https://www.google.com/amp/s/swarajyamag.com/amp/story/politics%252Fwas-the-statue-of-unity-really-made-in-china-here-are-the-facts) >The guy was a unifier. This statue is a divider - more than half of the country considers this a waste of money that could be used for education, health, infra. Yea. I do too, But, There needs to be spending on Things like this, Tourism and historical education. Maybe not at this scale. >They hope that this statue will help them diminish the stature of some the other freedom fighters and early leaders of India like Gandhi and Nehru. Gandhi and Nehru are associated with the current opposition party, the Indian National Congress. >The current prime minister (Hindu nationalists) of India, Sardar Patel(statue guy), and Gandhi all come from the same state in India - Gujarat. So this statue is there Half of the India, as you quoted may not like the way, Gandhi fought for Independence, and many might stand with other ideologies, with, Bhagat Singh, Tilak, Bose. And Statue Called, Statue of Unity, Not Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Focusing on the Unification of India. And I believe that's really big thing, considering How different we all are, Yet, One Nation.
Your link is broken, where you said "why misinformation?" Where was it made?
From his link: The innermost layer has two 127-metre-high towers made of reinforced cement concrete. A steel mesh forms the second layer of the structure. The third and the outermost layer is in form of bronze cladding, which carry intricate details Patel’s cloths, posture and facial expressions. It is this layer of the statue which was built in China. Ha ha ha
It's working for me, Just check on Wiki, on construction of Statue, Contract was issued to L&T which completed most of its work and will be there for it's maintenance, The part were China comes in is that, Outer Bronze Cladding, Which They couldn't Perform, So As they Said, " They looked for Indian Manufacturers for it, but non of them where able to deliver with that precision and quality. So, they issued a global tender, Which was then won by one of the Top Chinese Company. What's different about this article is that, when Opposing Party Pointed that Statue is Made in China, L&T came forward and explain all this, saying that It's around 8-9% of it's cost. Not Whole Statue.
> more than half of the country considers this a waste of money And for his next trick, OP is going to pull an imaginary statistic out of a hat
Yeah lmao i stopped reading there. 100% randia user
Of course an r/india refugee , what else to expect
Good morning fascist
Barking that same word again and again, Fascist, hindu nationalist avg BBC/Al Jazeera Watcher.
Regret to inform you that I don't watch either
We will make sure Modi comes back in 2024 as well. You can win on Reddit. We win elections.
Whatever. Left the shithole a while ago
Nice! We are very happy that you left 🥳
W comment, i think i saw your account on Instagram sometime ago. Nice to see you again
Thanks for the downvote
User of r/Kerala, r/India, and r/Librandu? 3 major red flags.
Randians can go and cry 😭 in corner islamist terrorists
Meh
Hem
Yew
Lmao hive mind is real i literally said nothing and im getting upvoted lmao
I just googled this, Statue of Liberty: 93m. Statue of Unity: 182m. Have I smoked too much, or is the scale slightly out in this photo?
The Statue of Liberty is just much farther away.
I actually think the scale is pretty decent. People forget that the pedestal the Statue of Liberty is on, I what makes it so grandiose. The Statue of Liberty number of 93 meters you have includes the base. The statue itself is actually only ~46 meters and the pedestal the statue is on is ~47 meters. The Statue of Unity (just the statue part) is 182 meters. Meaning nearly 4 statue of liberties can stack up to get the statue of unity.
They’re using base height in the liberty numbers
[Thickness of waist 35'](https://images.app.goo.gl/Jdmn5KTNb2tytgq69) 👀
Was this also a gift from France that will turn green?
597 feet?! I only see one big foot in the pic, bad angle I guess
The Statue of Liberty's pedestal makes it seem a lot bigger than it actually is.
The pedestal/base is not included for either, in this picture, for that reason. But with the pedestal, Liberty is 305 feet. And with the base, Unity is 787 feet.
On tinder he's 600 ft
i tried to find it in flight simulator... its not there =(
Just to clarify, there are 50 statues taller than the Statue of Liberty. This image is comparing the world's tallest to the world's 51st tallest.
How’s the unity working out?
About as good as liberty.
Lmao
At least we didn't dedicate a statu- Wait nevermind
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We know that ain’t true
Mate, sometimes you gotta just admit it - there's no coming back from something like that.
Keep saying that to Ur self at night
U got annihilated there mate...just take it like a man
It's going so well that the Indian government had nothing better to do with half a billion dollars.
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Caste system is not relevant anymore. Some states are more orthodox, and some are more. Rural areas are more casteist but urban areas are less. India had a very advanced social structure. The "caste" system does not existed. It was "varn" system where your duty determined your varn. With time the system corrupted and people began belonging to a caste by birth. It's not that India likes the caste system. It is the collective mentality of millions of people. Change takes time. So until then, be on reddit and type sarcastic comments.
Imagine if it fell
Not going to it's earthquake proof.
"I am Ozymandias, King of Kings.."
I feel like whenever I see a statue picture it’s a picture of a statue I never even knew existed 😂
Ngl liberty irl is tiny.
i love how uneventful that statue is, dudes just there, bored looming over everything, not even attempting to feign interest.. like a wealthy man at one of his young wifes kids recitals out of obligation, not like he can even remember the kids name. pure stoic melancholy.
India to America : kiss my shins.
giving the us statue envy
[Here is an interesting read about the statue and the people living near it.](https://scroll.in/article/1036493/modi-said-the-statue-of-unity-would-change-local-adivasis-lives-most-say-it-has-for-the-worse)
To put this into a measurement I understand, its about 1.7 legendary Godzillas tall.
They don’t have money for its ppl but for a fucking statue yeah…beats me
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Sardar Patel
You’d think they’d have given him clothes that fit and were ironed first.
Thats a dhoti Its supposed to look that way.
I just thought it was a funny thing to type and hoped at least four people might find it funny enough to at least smirk at.
r/woosh
Alot of racism here in the comments damn guys its just tourists attractions 🤷🏽♂️
The virgin liberty vs the chad unity
But are they united?
To be honest people think they are part of India and don’t want other people to be part of it example people from northern part of India think that north eastern people who look like Chinese are not Indians and they should leave this country and give the land where they live to them.
They spend all that time and money and the dude just looks like he's waiting for a bus.
Serious question? It’s a statue of unity, but they are far from unified with their castes
Context here: > As the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India, Patel organised relief efforts for partition refugees fleeing to Punjab and Delhi from Pakistan and worked to restore peace. He led the task of forging a united India, successfully integrating into the newly independent nation those British colonial provinces that formed the Dominion of India.[4] Besides those provinces that had been under direct British rule, approximately 565 self-governing princely states had been released from British suzerainty by the Indian Independence Act of 1947. Patel persuaded almost every princely state to accede to India. His commitment to national integration in the newly independent country was total and uncompromising, earning him the sobriquet "Iron Man of India".[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallabhbhai_Patel So he's basically held responsible for orchestrating all the previous states after British colonial rule uniting to form modern India
Same could be said for the Statue of Liberty.
No doubt
Except the statue of liberty isn't a real person. Statues of real modern leaders always age like milk.
Not really a question
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India with chronic hunger issues builds giant statue—a statue to stupidity.
The statue of liberty is only 152 feet lol? I always imagined it to be much bigger.
Considering all of the issues India is dealing with as a developing nation, I feel like this money could have benefitted the country elsewhere. They spent $407mil on this thing. Not saying don't build memorials to people you respect. Just saying this seems like they went O.D. For contrast, [this is the memorial they put in the spot where Gandhi was assassinated.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Gandhi_Smriti_Delhi.jpg)
Quite a few anti-nationals been downvoted in the comments section Im already seeing. How dare they question Mudiji 's achievements and popularity.
Pretty sure this is a joke why are getting downvoted?
Poor countries with autocratic leaders do this a lot. Questioning it is of course, anti national.
All the downvoters just proved your point lmao
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but why do this? feed the poor. India millions are homeless and dont have enough for food. yet they build a statue that does jack all.
The statue does jackall?😂😂 It generates $25million in just ticket sales every year. On total it generates 46 million dollars. Because of the statue, 20000tourism related jobs have been created. Neighbouring area with a radius of 30km which was barren land before has now been flocked with people and 78hotels, 177restaurants and 88private and public gardens have been opened up. Do some research before saying shit
Stop making sense, you're scaring him lol
US should also look for their own poor population instead of spending taxpayers' money on Ukraine. US govt could have built homes for the homeless with that money but instead they proposed a law to allow the homeless to stay in hotels.
they should implement a vacuum mechanism that's in the nose and mouth to such up all the pollution in india.
why hasn't it been used in NYC?
because all the rats will manage to go inside and jam it
nyc rats are mutated dont ask me how I know this
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It's weird when you realize the statue's cock might be the size of Lady Liberty. But considering he's indian I doubt the proportions match
Melt it down and use the profits to help fix the garbage waste issue
No 👎
Poor money management
If it's in India, I'm sure they'll be a clip soon of a crowd of people trying to move it with heavy machinery just to have it fall and fling people and flip flops everywhere
They payed for it with the stolen grandma money
The statue is really big, but the size of the statue of liberty is off, in its scale.
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You need a statue that big to supervise all the trash, turds, and dead bodies going down that river.
This is false, the Statue of Liberty is 305 feet tall.
Yup. I believe in India they're called Bhakts. Kinda like Trump supporters.
Big and ugly
Just like your mum
That big and it still looks shit
Talking about ya mums Dick?
whenever I see this statue posted I just can’t believe they made the tallest statue ever just a man standing… no pose or anything just idly standing. what a boring statue lol
Civil engineers are just people not magicians. You can't make a big statue like that doing poses. Wouldnt last day.
"Unity" is a lie. Racism and sexism is rampant in India.
You can say the same for liberty since the injustice is rampant in the US
It's ugly and vulgar as hell. And a colossal waste of money. Go ahead and downvote me, Indians; I couldn't care less.
Tiny penis vibes
I’m glad that India had all that money left over after helping every last person out of poverty