At Mahim, a ‘beautified’ traffic island has been turned into a dumping yard inhabited by drug addicts and drunks. The blue lights in this island were stolen, the railings of the plantation are broken and one can see alcohol bottles on the site.

While views differ on aesthetics, this kind of pilferage and vandalism speak very poorly of citizens. Filching of infra is sadly very common  and breaking objects, removing lids, scrawling on surfaces... we see this far too often.

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This paper had highlighted a Worli Seaface island, where metal flamingos had been installed as an aesthetic addition to the space. Days later, we saw the same flamingos broken and some were missing, obviously filched.

While nobody disputes that basics must come before beautification and there is some merit in the debate about public money, you can have an opinion about beautification. One can criticise it, but defiling these spaces, making it a rubbish bin speaks very badly of the people.