Those skills are required for good monument building, too.
"He really liked it," Bashir said, "and you know, it is a good monument, I think".
"Because this is such a good monument to humanity and compassion, it is really necessary to keep it in play," she said.
Then, it was right back to the buses, where students pronounced the monument good and returned to their chatter.
But the city, south of Bangalore, is also a good place to observe monuments to India's modern might.
"We wanted them to spend good money on the monuments in the park," said Greg Godfrey, the association's president, who now lives in Chicago.
Our guidebook had good information about the monuments of Durbar Square, but we hardly had a chance to consult it that day.
It also helps that these charms exist in such surprising abundance and proximity — virtually everything in the city is less than five minutes away from everything else — with most major monuments a good bit closer together.
And what a good idea to turn monuments to masculine ambition into gravity-defying female 'dos: wigs, actually, which you can put on and take off as suits your mood.
That movie was not good, but the actual Monuments Men mirror the cadre of heritage activists risking their lives to salvage artifacts and raise awareness of illegal digging and looting.
