he 216-feet tall \u2018Statue of Equality\u2019 commemorates the 11th-century Bhakti saint Ramanujacharya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSri Ramanujacharya worked tirelessly for the upliftment of people with the spirit of every human being equal regardless of nationality, gender, race, caste or creed,\u201d the PMO said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Made of five metals \u2013 gold, silver, copper, brass, and zinc \u2013 the Statue of Equality is among one of the world\u2019s tallest metallic statues in sitting position, according to the PMO. The statue is mounted on a 54-feet high base building, called \u2018Bhadra Vedi\u2019. The floors of the building are dedicated to a Vedic digital library and research centre, ancient Indian texts, a theatre, an educational gallery detailing works of Sri Ramanujacharya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The statue has been conceptualised by Chinna Jeeyar Swami of Sri Ramanujacharya Ashram, the PMO stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
he 216-feet tall \u2018Statue of Equality\u2019 commemorates the 11th-century Bhakti saint Ramanujacharya. \u201cSri Ramanujacharya worked tirelessly for the upliftment of people with the spirit of every human being equal regardless of nationality, gender, race, caste or creed,\u201d the PMO said. Made of five metals \u2013 gold, silver, copper, brass, and zinc \u2013 the Statue of … Continue reading ** PM Modi to unveil \u2018Statue of Equality\u2019 today in Hyderabad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,18,20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-history","category-records-india-national","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13789,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions\/13789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}