India, April 12 -- By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD

In my last week's article, I had written about how the erection of the statue of H.H. Chamaraja Wadiyar X, our 23rd Maharaja, in front of our Palace, ran into a bit of a problem and how it was solved in a most ingenious way, paving the way for it to become our city's most well-known landmark.

This statue, that was originally sculpted by the famous French sculptor, William Robert Colton, due to a major imperfection, was given a completely new head that was sculpted by Ganpatrao K. Mhatre, a no less famous artisan from Bombay.

While the former completed the work assigned to him in the year 1918, the statue after its corrective plastic surgery by the latter, could be installed and unveiled at...