By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD
As I said last Friday, our own Mysuru and distant Udaipur, which I visited recently with my family, seem like sister cities to me since they have both been seats of royalty and also because both have many Lakes and Palaces. It is a different matter that while we seem very dissatisfied of late with how we are managing our Lakes while people there seem supremely content with retaining them like how their forefathers had left them...undeveloped and undecorated but tranquil and pristine. And, their Lakes are perhaps destined to remain that way over the years to come as they have a stern legislation in place that proscribes any development around them.
