Contest Alert ⚠️ 1 Picture 1 Story Week #74

Greetings my dear friends of Steemit and Steem For Pakistan

_{THIS BRONZE PANEL ORIGINALLY EXECUTED BY SIR GOSCOMBE JOHN R. A. FOR THE PEDESTAL OF THE STATUE OF THE LATE EARL OF MINTO VICEROY & GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA (1905-1910), WAS PRESENTED TO THE TRUSTEES O THE VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL BY THE DOWAGER COUNTESS OF MINTO.}

Like the above most of the statues of Victoria Memorial Hall Museum and ground were collected from other parts of the city of colonial time.

Whatever colonial statues were left in city were replaced by stalwarts of bengal in various fields like freedom movement, literature, politics etc. and those statues were shifted to Barrackpore and reinstalled there. This was initiated by the left front government of West Bengal during late 70s under the department of public works department. Fortunately though there were blood steam during the riot in Kolkata due to partition but the colonial statues were never vandalized.

I would like to share a quote from Robert Musil.

"There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument... They are no doubt erected to be seen - indeed to attract attention.

comments ought really try a little lander, as we must all do nowadays... Why doesn't our bronze hero at least resort to gimmick, long since outdated elsewhere, of tapping with his finger on a plane of glass? Why don't the figures in a marble group tum, as those better-made figures in show windows do. or at least blink their eyes open and shut?"

(Robert Musil, "Monuments" in Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, pp.61-63)

I would like to invite three fellow Steemians to participate in the contest.
@sabbirakib
@anjinoor
@chiagoziee

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