This was raw humour indeed. While part of Notre Dame was lost to fire, Indian monuments are just lost to encroachment and negligence.
Why let fire do it for you when laziness has the same result. From the TOI: Lost heritage: India doesn't need to worry about a fire to destroy its heritage — that 'onerous' task is taken care of through encroachments which have resulted in the disappearance of several monuments. Worse, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the sole guardian of the country's heritage, doesn't have the foggiest idea of how many monuments it has lost. While the ASI puts the number of missing monuments at 35, a CAG report back in 2014 had already listed 92 monuments as ‘missing’, aka, destroyed. The CAG report had only surveyed 1,655 ASI protected monuments, the total number for which stands at close to 3,700. Roland. Toronto.
