India, July 31 -- Sir,

The Roads in KHB Colony, Hootagalli, are in a really bad state. Every morning, we leave our homes not just to go to work, drop children at school, or run errands - we set out on an unsolicited adventure sport. It's an urban jungle, where roads have become a chaotic mix of potholes, dug-up trenches, and broken promises.

It's not an exaggeration when I say that our daily commute feels like a rally course. These roads, if they can still be called that, are an appalling insult to the very idea of public infrastructure. While we, the honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens, continue to pay high taxes without fail, what we get in return is not development, but degradation.

It is just pure corruption. The crumbling road...