Mayawati overcame the prejudices of Indian society to become chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Now she is talked of as a future prime minister. Andrew Buncombe reports from Lucknow in The Independent, UK.
The Indian sculptor Shraavan Prajapati says he is used to taking commissions from high-powered people who might be described as having a fondness for the limelight.
Last year, he received an order for half a dozen statues of herself by Mayawati Kumari, the all conquering Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (UP). And a decade or so ago, he says, he made a similar number of bronze statues for the late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein – including the one erected in Baghdad’s Firdos Square that was famously pulled down in a stunt organised by American troops.
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