Here’s inspiration for some very creative destruction. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was wracking its brains over what to do with the millions of gutkha pouches it had seized since last year’s ban on tobacco, when suddenly the light bulb went on. Quite literally. The food watchdog decided to dispatch the packets to a waste management plant in Pune where they will be destroyed, treated and used to generate power.

FDA officials seized kilos of gutkha from a train at CST last month, following the July ban on the tobacco product. Pic/Bipin Kokate