Elites Don’t Get It

October 18, 2011

Media pundits are having a great time taking swipes at the building projects of the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Self-appointed fiscal hawks are critical about the waste of tax payers money. Self-appointed defenders of the poor keep harping on the fact that the money could have been spent on education or medical facilities for the poor. Upper-class aesthetes are concerned that Mayawati’s lavish parks and garish statues do not meet with their self-proclaimed standards of architectural and sculptural beauty. In other words, the efforts are somewhat kitschy. Net-net elitists are either angry or ashamed or embarrassed by the edifices of the current dispensation in UP.

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