We accord so much importance to inaugurations that often these little frills, usually meant for gathering credit points, overshadow the reason behind those events. Yesterday, this paper reported how two different politicians inaugurated a school, in the span of a month. The report st­a­ted that a Congress MLA went ahead with the bhoomipujan ceremony of a Kurla school, which was inaugurated by a BJP neta a month ago.

They blamed each other for trying to take credit for the school and plenty of accusations and counter accusations were exchanged. However, given our leaders’ penchant for capitalising on anything that can be milked for publicity, this is not an isolated incident. We have witnessed numerous instances when inaugurations and ribbon cuttings have become all-important.