India, Jan. 25 -- By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD

Very recently, all Mysuru-loving Mysureans were rudely jolted awake after a clandestine midnight operation by the authorities felled forty fully grown copper pod trees on the stretch of Hyder Ali Road running between the Police Quarters and the Karnataka Police Academy.

Outraged citizens even held protests, upon which they were quickly reassured that a proper enquiry would be held to identify the offenders and bring them to book for their rash and thoughtless act, in which I see much malicious intent of shameless profiteering too.

Short public memory

But this reassurance of an inquiry was rightly seen by most right-thinking people only as a placebo injection to assuage ruffled emotions, wh...