Always nice to take tea in the hallowed portals of the BMC, in the special chambers where the Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai presides over the daily workings, of this enormous and often unmanageable city of Mumbai.

Ajoy Mehta, the current commissioner is a soft-spoken well read man, an IIT grad, with further degrees in management and law, and someone who can talk as knowledgeably about the classics as he can, about power supply and waste management.