Disappointing but not entirely unexpected. In a day and age when our country’s, and city’s heritage is under increasing pressure from all quarters, one was hoping that World Heritage Week that is being observed until tomorrow, November 25 would have generated some amount of buzz and awareness from the centre, state and other bodies that have a connect with our heritage, in some form tangible or otherwise. With just a day to go, this as we are discovering isn’t to be.

Barring both of the city’s museums that organised events for the public across age groups, genres and ideas, there was no initiative or activity to instill any sense of pride and respect for our city’s rich repository of heritage. Worse, we had to watch in dismay as INS Vikrant that one-time citadel of India’s naval warfare — was bid adieu in not the most honourable ways. In any other country, such warships would have been given a place of pride in a war memorial museum. But not here. How many similar incidents have we glossed over in the newspapers, from time to time? Your guess is as good as ours.