Post Visarjan, we will see groups of people, many of them youngsters, cleaning up beaches. Several of these campaigners are attached to organisations, environmental groups, green warriors as we call them and conduct clean-ups not only post visarjan, but through the year, especially on weekends.

There are a number who will be debutants to beach cleaning and may align with an organisation for regular clean-ups. It is heartening and humbling to see the willingness of so may citizens to clean beaches after Mumbai bids goodbye to the elephant headed God, who brings joy in the 10-day span of his arrival and is bid goodbye with a fervent plea to be back quickly next year.