The Statue of Unity

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Humans, they love to argue with each other. Even if it is about things debatable, yet they will argue.

Yesterday on television, I saw this news about the Statue of Unity project. Is it just a coincidence or did they want to rhyme it with the Statue of Liberty. Either way, humans just plain lack creativity. I have, multiple times heard them talk of ‘thinking out of the box’, but that’s just a talk.

Creativity is something they should have learnt from us crows.

The Statue of Unity is to be built in the memory of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, will be the tallest statue in the world. This statue will be located on an island situated 3 kilometers away from the Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat.

The project, I thought, was a marvelous thing. I remember my great grand father telling me stories of Indian independence. He spoke about the man – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel with a lot of reverence.

And then the two humans who were sharing the television with me started arguing about the project forcing me to move my attention from the television on to them.

One thing that the humans just never comprehend is the fact that everything has its pros and cons. No, they just do not get it. They would put their views forwards and start arguing without accepting the goods and the flaws.

Human 1: What a waste of money. 2500 crore, can you believe it?

Human 2: Dude, imagine the feeling of unity and nationality when this does get done.

Human 1: What unity, man? Here people have not food to eat and you bloody waste money like this. We are a poor country. There are important things to worry about.

Human 2: Hey, this will be a thing to be proud of for us Indians world wide. Do you even know what that means? And think of it futuristically. The kind of money this statue and island will make out of tourism. It will be the largest one in the world, man, IN THE WORLD. People from across nations will be coming to see it.

Human 1: Crap! We are dying here today and you think of future.

Well, the humans went on with this argument for a long time. It heated up; they began hurling abuses at each other and ultimately they walked away in a huff.

Technically both of them were correct. But humans, the way humans are, they just never agree with each other. Gah!

PS: The Statue of Unity is a great project, at least for us crows we now will have a resting place when we fly over Gujrat.