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The statue of Thiruvalluvar stands on a small island off Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, beside the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, and its height of 133 feet was chosen to match the 133 chapters of the Tirukkural, the poet's work on ethics, wealth and love.

The 57 foot statue on Vindhyagiri hill at Shravanabelagola in the Hassan district of Karnataka portrays Bahubali, also called Gomateshwara, the son of the first Jain tirthankara Rishabhanatha, and it was raised about the year 983 by Chavundaraya, a minister of the Western Ganga kingdom.

He founded the city of Hyderabad and built the Charminar in 1591, a square building about 56 metres high with four arches and four minarets, one at each corner, which is why it carries that name.

Qutb-ud-din Aibak laid the foundation of the Qutub Minar and completed only its first storey, and his successor Iltutmish added the storeys above, bringing the minaret to its height of 72.5 metres, which makes it the tallest brick minaret in the world.

The Statue of Unity stands 182 metres high on Sadhu Bet island in the Narmada near the Sardar Sarovar dam in the Narmada district of Gujarat, was sculpted by Ram V. Sutar, and was unveiled on 31 October 2018, the birth anniversary of Patel.

The Hawa Mahal at Jaipur was built in 1799 by Sawai Pratap Singh of the Kachhwaha house, and was designed by Lal Chand Ustad as a five storey screen of red and pink sandstone with hundreds of small jharokha windows.

The Parthenon is the temple of the goddess Athena, built in the fifth century before the common era on the Acropolis, the rocky height above Athens in Greece, and it is the most famous monument of the classical Greek world.

The Colosseum is the vast amphitheatre of the Roman empire, standing in the heart of Rome in Italy, and it was chosen in 2007 as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

The Sydney Opera House, with its shells rising above the harbour, was designed by the Danish architect Jorn Utzon and is the best known building in Australia.

Borobudur stands on the island of Java in Indonesia and is the largest Buddhist temple in the world, built as a great stepped monument whose terraces carry hundreds of relief panels and stupas.

The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing, and for that reason it was given honorary standing alongside the New Seven Wonders chosen in 2007.

Christ the Redeemer stands on a peak above Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and was chosen in 2007 as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

Petra is the city carved into rose-red rock in southern Jordan, built by the Nabataeans, and it was included among the New Seven Wonders of the World chosen in 2007.

Machu Picchu is the Inca citadel set high in the Andes of Peru, and it was chosen in 2007 as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

Angkor Wat in Cambodia is the largest religious monument in the world; it was built in the twelfth century as a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu and later became a Buddhist site, and its image appears on the national flag of Cambodia.

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States, dedicated in 1886, designed by the sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi with its internal framework by Gustave Eiffel, and it stands on an island at the entrance to New York harbour.

The Eiffel Tower was built by Gustave Eiffel and completed in 1889 in Paris for the world exposition held to mark the centenary of the French Revolution, and it has remained the best known landmark of France.

The twentieth year is the china anniversary, also called the porcelain anniversary, and it is the last of the early names before the silver jubilee of twenty-five.

A millennium is one thousand years, from the Latin mille for a thousand and annus for a year, and in Hindi it is called the sahasrabdi.

India became independent in 1947, so the completion of fifty years, the golden jubilee or Swarna Jayanti, fell in 1997.