India, Feb. 21 -- Mysuru is called a Royal Heritage City, but for nearly a decade now, it's become a 'Flex City.'

There are flex boards and flex hoardings everywhere. They are at Circles, they are atop buildings, they are on trees, they have climbed Chamundi Hill and even crawled into the median of Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway !

Our city has been suffering from an illegal hoarding epidemic for 15 years. Attempts have been made to end it. again. and again, but the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) fails again. and again. They have made another attempt but we fear they will fail yet again.

Day before yesterday, the MCC conducted what can only be described as a 'Cinderella Operation' - a midnight flex-removal drive.

MCC, under the cover of darkn...