Ganesh Chaturthi is around the corner, and already, we are using and hearing buzz words like eco-friendly. The new age and fashionable eco-consciousness is manifest in the large number of clay murtis.

This paper carried a compact report on a six-year-old boy, son of artists, who was emulating his mother, making a clay Ganesha and exhorting all to go green during the Ganesh festival. Entirely admirable sentiments from a child, and a pleasing indicator about how deep the preserve-the-planet message has seeped in. Yet, we as adults need to apply eco-consciousness to all aspects of our lives, not just talk about eco-friendly murtis now that the festive season is here.