Come June and it is the time to wake up and look at our environment. Every year June 5 is celebrated as World Environment Day. Mysuru was at one time called the air-conditioned city. During the peak summer, people were just using pankas (mostly weaved out of bamboo with a thin flat handle) swinging it left to right to get the cool breeze. Sadly, those days are only a distant memory.
Now, the only way to beat the heat is to plant more tree-saplings in our surroundings and appropriately the theme of this year’s World Environment Day being hosted by China is "Beat Air Pollution." The theme for 2018 was "Beat Plastic Pollution" and the host nation was India.
