As inauguration of Statue of Unity completes a month, the mindless, illogical criticism doesn’t seem to end

Its been a month since Sardar Vallabhai Patel’s Statue of Unity was inaugurated, yet the manufactured controversy surrounding it refuses to die down. It is currently the tallest statue in the world but is constantly compared with the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and The Statue of Liberty. The Eiffel Tower, a global icon today, constructed between 1887-1889, as an entrance to the 1889 World’s fair, is 324 meters tall. During its construction, it too, much like the Statue of Unity faced criticism from a group of Artists, in France: We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects and passionate devotees of the hitherto untouched beauty of Paris, protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection … of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower … To bring our arguments home, imagine for a moment a giddy, ridiculous tower dominating Paris like a gigantic black smokestack, crushing under its barbaric bulk Notre Dame, the Tour Saint-Jacques, the Louvre, the Dome of Les Invalides, the Arc de Triomphe, all of our humiliated monuments will disappear in this ghastly dream. The larger point that the left-leaning couch-economist are trying to obfuscate about is that the monuments such as Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, make sound economic sense since over a period of time these monuments make money many times over their construction cost.