India, Aug. 29 -- The last few days provided an interesting spectacle on citizens vis-a-vis the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). As a group of Mumbaiites went about filling potholes, the BMC, via its Twitter handle, chided citizens for doing so, discouraged them, and termed the activity "illegal". Then, it turned around the next day to acknowledge their "good intent" and urged them to "work as partners" with civic engineers so that "correct engineering methods" could be followed for pothole remediation. This raises questions about citizens' activism on key civic issues as well as the BMC's responsibilities....