India, Aug. 2 -- Mysureans love Dasara. Not just for its pageantry, elephants and fireworks, but because it's the only time of the year when our city gets a much-needed facelift.

Dasara is our Annual Civic Botox Session. Come October, our administration transforms into a cosmetologist, injecting quick Botox to beautify the city as best as possible.

Like a brigade of frantic beauticians for a bride, our administration goes to work on tourist areas of Mysuru by scrubbing roads, patching potholes, painting medians, relocating hawkers and dressing up Mysuru like a Bollywood bombshell.

The city sparkles with illumination. The main roads shimmer in the reflection of lights. There is order on the streets as the Police work overtime. But.

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