Now that we have come to the end of the Ganesh festival, several organisations, individuals and even political leaders will undertake beach clean-ups, post visarjan. Beach clean-ups have now become part of the ecologically aware landscape, where organisations arrange weekend and even daily drives, with civic authorities leading the way.

Any and all efforts to ensure a cleaner and greener city are welcome. We want our leaders to be equally quick at ordering the removal of the plethora of hoardings/banners which are plastered all over the city.

While mandals have made their arrangements, which should also be carefully and quickly removed post visarjan, political leaders’ faces are everywhere, wishing devotees or taking credit for something or the other. They are staring at us on our streets, at junctions, sometimes becoming a blind spot for vehicles, which is dangerous, too.