India, April 14 -- "Blessings" don't always go a long way, and Kamlakar Shenoy knows this best.

Shenoy is an angry man today because his has been a nearly 10-year lone battle with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) - the country's richest civic body - to complete rebuilding south Mumbai's British era Hancock Bridge, sans any support from residents and political will. His crusade also failed to garner public attention like Andheri's Gokhale Bridge.

All the 66-year-old hotelier has managed to elicit from people around him are "blessings". "I wish the residents of Mazgaon also unite to create awareness on the need of Hancock bridge. Their apathy is shameful," he said bitterly.

Located close to Sandhurst Road railway station, Han...