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Thursday, June 5, 2008

All's Well in Maharashtra - Lets Build a Shivaji Statue?

In a satirical piece published originally in the Marathi newspaper Lok Satta, Kumar Ketkar the editor, talks about how everything is hunky-dory in the Indian state of Maharashtra, the state is a model for economic development, how every citizen of the state is satisfied and the government providing the ideal administration.

Due to this ideal environment, the government has decided to spend Rs 20 Billion of valuable taxpayers money on a statue of the great Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

Alas, if only whatever Kumar Ketkar says in the article was true. With so many ills plaguing the state of Maharashtra , farmer suicides being just one of them, we have to question the state governments decision on whether the Rs 20 Billion of taxpayers money is well spent.

Read the complete translation of the article in english at All's Well in Maharashtra

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