Lake it or not, we are all responsible

Intro Publication:  Our Bangalore Date published:  May 22, 2015

There is something surreal about the way people from politicians to citizens have been reacting to two incidents: the order of the National Green Tribunal penalising two real estate developers for unauthorised constructions in the city's lakes, and the frothing over of Varthur lake. The decay and obliteration of Bangalore's lakes is not news, and neither are the reactions of one and sundry.

The outrage is...