Statue of The Freedom Of Press

The Statue of "The Freedom Of Press" is a statue located outside Lokmat Printing Press in Butibori, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
Vijay Darda, Member of Parliament and Chairman, Lokmat Group, commissioned a sculpture depicting ‘Freedom of Press.’ It shows a man and a woman reading a newspaper together and also symbolizes women’s keen involvement in pursuit of knowledge alongside men. The newspaper represents knowledge and truth. The rough horizontal lines on the couple’s body denote language and the continuous flow of words. The sculpture is placed on a black granite block under the open sky and in totality along with its location represents Freedom of Press.
The sculpture has been carved out of a monolithic block of high quality black marble mined in Bhaislana village in the Jaipur district of Rajasthan. The size and weight of the marble block was such that it was practically impossible to transport it out of the mine and hence Mr. Kiran Adate, the sculptor decided to chisel out the basic form of the sculpture in the mine itself. After two months of work in the mine the marble block was transported to its current location at Butibori in Nagpur, Maharashtra where the final detailing was done over a period of six months. The sculpture is seven feet tall and it is installed on a three feet high black granite block.
This sculpture of the unsung hero of the newspaper universe stands in the same premises and features a newspaper boy on a bicycle with a hand raised to throw a newspaper. Also sculpted by Kiran Adate, the main frame of this 12-feet tall statue is made up of steel with copper wire wound around it. Here too, the horizontal wire winding represents language and flow of words.
Both the sculptures were unveiled on October 13, 2013 on the festival of Vijayadashmi at Lokmat Printing Press in Butibori, Nagpur, Maharashtra by Sushilkumar Shinde, Union Minister of Home, Government of India.

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