T R Shankar Raman at Nature Conservation Foundation rues about ficus trees around Mysore being chopped down for road widening.
We know they are old, not from the road itself, or the people, certainly not from the speeding vehicles. We know it from the great trees growing by the side of the road for mile upon mile. These are grand Ficus trees, the fig trees we know as banyans, metres in girth and sprawling in canopy, planted and nurtured to life by some blessed soul centuries past. Today, they add the only uplifting aesthetics and rejuvenating shade to the otherwise bare and dour tar road. And yet, all along the roads, these huge, ancient, centuries-old banyan trees are now being hacked.
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Our stupid government will never learn that cutting the trees down will not solve any problems (certainly, not our traffic woes; road widening is only a bandaid solution). In fact, it will create more.