it's planned to be a 182 metre high tribute to independence hero sardar vallabhbhai patel. the figure has cost 430 million dollars and will be inaugurated on 31 october. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, from ramallah. i'm stephen sackur. more than five decades after the israeli occupation of the west bank began, i've come here, not to meet a palestinian politician, but an artist, perhaps the most renowned palestinian artist of his generation, suleiman mansour. his paintings have come to define a sense of palestinian identity. but in a place like this, in troubled times like these, does art really matter? i have a vision of what the painting should look like, and then i keep trying until i have that image. and it doesn't come usually in the first instance. so this is the first try, i do it. and the effect is — should show the helplessness of people, and so on. that's how i want this painting to be. but now this is how i feel, personally, and how i think people are feeling. this is dark, this is bleak. the mood, the feel o