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Sir PM was seated in his favourite bench inside the Horniman Circle Gardens. It offered him a 360-degree view of the grandeur of the architecture that graced him from all sides – St Thomas Cathedral, the Asiatic Society building and the fine assemblage of facades that constituted Horniman Circle. ‘It’s been a while since I met Lady Flora, thanks to this wretched pandemic and the guidelines,’ he thought to himself as he sipped on his milky chai from a flask and brun maska that the missus had packed for both of them. It was one of those rare breezy evenings in May, and the solitude of the surroundings relaxed him. The partial lockdown gave him plenty of time to do justice to the books that had collected dust on his bookshelf. He and Lady Flora had hardly met and he was clearly missing the weekly gupshup.
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Early on the morning of August 10, 1965, a municipal watchman was on his rounds of Horniman Circle when he received a great shock: The marble figures of Lord Cornwallis and Lord Wellesley had been beheaded. Soon, reports of such mutilation came in from other parts of the city. Near Oval Maidan, Lord Sandhurst’s nose had been disfigured. Even Queen Victoria, seated on her magnificent marble throne at M G Road, was not spared: Her crown had been broken.
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The municipal authorities acted swiftly to avoid further damage. Within a few days, at least eight British statues were bundled off to Victoria Gardens, today’s Rani Baug, in an overnight operation. They included Queen Victoria and the famous Kala Ghoda, a bronze equestrian statue of Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) that leftists had threatened to pull down on Independence Day.
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